Built in 1913, the Charles and Grace Parker House was designed by the nationally-prominent Prairie...
Twin Cities Area
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Townhomes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Greater Minnesota
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Minnesota Home School for Girls was established by the state legislature in 1907 as a...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Green Lake Mounds
Red Wing Iron Works
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Ottawa
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moderne New Ulm Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Ruins of Sawyer School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Visiting Golden Gate
District 6 School in New Sweden
Jordan Brewery Complex
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Florence Town Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Finding The Past In Swatara
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Duluth Homestead Project
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Cobden
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Franconia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Endion School In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Moving Old Hibbing
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Remembering Quadna Resort
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hanover Bridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Wasioja
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The End of the Line in Currie
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Almelund Creamery
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Oxford Mill Ruin
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Sandstone
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City