Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Twin Cities Area
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
District #28 School in Ramsey
The District #28 School was constructed in Ramsey in 1892 to replace a smaller, wood frame school...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wilder Public Baths
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Women’s City Club In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Landmark Center In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Robbinsdale Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Have you ever wondered how Minnesota became known as the land of 10,000 lakes? Every Minnesotan...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Old Wadena
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
State Theater In Hutchinson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hollywood Town Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moderne New Ulm Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Little Marais Inn
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Little Falls Depot
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Red Wing Iron Works
Enter Marlon Brando
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Sandstone
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Milford Monument
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Almelund Creamery
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The End of the Line in Currie
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Duluth Homestead Project
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Le Sueur Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome to Hanska
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Ottawa
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Visiting Golden Gate
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Wasioja
Meyer School In St Augusta
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
District 48 School Near Delano
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Dotson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lost Highway 61
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Florence Town Hall
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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