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...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
Wilder Public Baths
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Saint Paul Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Eight Days in May Protests
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Englanders who settled in the St Croix Valley were drawn there because of the thick, wild...
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...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The End of the Line in Currie
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Visiting Golden Gate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Florence Town Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
District 6 School in New Sweden
Finding The Past In Swatara
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Dotson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Ottawa
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Almelund Creamery
Old Brewery In Preston
Lost Highway 61
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Church of the Holy Cross
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Meyer School In St Augusta
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Historic Wasioja
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hanover Bridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Endion School In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Old School In Wolverton
Little Falls Depot
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Endion Depot In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Milford Monument
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bend in the River Regional Park
Green Lake Mounds
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
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