The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Twin Cities Area
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Apartments
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Townhomes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Church of the Holy Cross
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome to Hanska
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Old School In Wolverton
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Endion School In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
The Little Marais Inn
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Oxford Mill Ruin
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Brewery In Preston
The New Ulm Company Service Station
District 6 School in New Sweden
Finding The Past In Swatara
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Wandering Around The Toimi School
District 48 School Near Delano
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Wasioja
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Ottawa
The End of the Line in Currie
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Franconia
The Milford Monument
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Green Lake Mounds
Moderne New Ulm Library
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lost Highway 61
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Cobden
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Little Falls Depot
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Old Wadena
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Le Sueur Theater
Hollywood Town Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
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
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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