The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
Twin Cities Area
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Apartments
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
For several years, Tenney held the distinction of being Minnesota’s smallest town. The 2010 census...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Almelund Creamery
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome to Hanska
State Theater In Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Dotson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
District 6 School in New Sweden
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hanover Bridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Little Marais Inn
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Florence Town Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lost Highway 61
Ruins of Sawyer School
Enter Marlon Brando
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Finding The Past In Swatara
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Green Lake Mounds
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Oxford Mill Ruin
Little Falls Depot
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Old School In Wolverton
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Hollywood Town Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Visiting Golden Gate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Franconia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Milford Monument
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Church of the Holy Cross
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Duluth Homestead Project
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn 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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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