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...
Robbinsdale Library
The Robbinsdale Library opened its doors for the first time on January 4, 1926, thanks to the...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Wilder Public Baths
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Lincoln Branch of the Duluth Public Library opened in 1917 thanks to $30,000 from Andrew...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lincoln Park is 37 acres of space along Miller Creek in Duluth’s west end. Today, the park includes...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Old Brewery In Preston
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lost Highway 61
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Sandstone
The Duluth Homestead Project
Enter Marlon Brando
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Ruins of Sawyer School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Endion School In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moving Old Hibbing
Hanover Bridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 48 School Near Delano
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Wasioja
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Oxford Mill Ruin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Franconia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The End of the Line in Currie
The Old School In Wolverton
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
State Theater In Hutchinson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome to Hanska
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Florence Town Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Milford Monument
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Almelund Creamery
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Little Falls Depot
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Le Sueur Theater
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Visiting Golden Gate
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital 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