Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Twin Cities Area
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Landmark Center In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Townhomes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
I’m sure we’ve all made typos that made us cringe once we noticed them. But most of our...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Park Terrace was an opulent building of Victorian townhouses located on a steep hill just off of...
Hanover Bridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Dotson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Visiting Golden Gate
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Old Wadena
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Le Sueur Theater
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Endion School In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome to Hanska
The End of the Line in Currie
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Florence Town Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Moderne New Ulm Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Historic Franconia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Enter Marlon Brando
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
District 48 School Near Delano
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood Town Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Wasioja
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Randall Cooperative Creamery
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Sandstone
The Almelund Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Little Falls Depot
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Little Marais Inn
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Jordan Brewery Complex
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Finding The Past In Swatara
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Ruins of Sawyer School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Milford Monument
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Cobden
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Ottawa
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lost Highway 61
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
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...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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