The Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis was one of the rare mills in the city that had four finished...
Twin Cities Area
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Townhomes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Apartments
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wilder Public Baths
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
September 24, 1909 At 4:20 a.m., an off-duty worker at the Fergus Falls City Light Station woke up...
The Church of the Holy Cross
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Finding The Past In Swatara
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
State Theater In Hutchinson
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hanover Bridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Meyer School In St Augusta
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Old Wadena
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Cobden
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Moving Old Hibbing
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hollywood Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Franconia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The End of the Line in Currie
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Le Sueur Theater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome to Hanska
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Endion School In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Red Wing Iron Works
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Little Falls Depot
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting Golden Gate
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Dotson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Milford Monument
Remembering Quadna Resort
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
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...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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