If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
Twin Cities Area
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Robbinsdale Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wilder Public Baths
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Apartments
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
Visiting Golden Gate
A post office was first established in Golden Gate, Minnesota, in 1868. The little town sprang up...
Bend in the River Regional Park
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Little Falls Depot
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Milford Monument
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Jordan Brewery Complex
Moving Old Hibbing
Hollywood Town Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Sandstone
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Ottawa
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Red Wing Iron Works
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Enter Marlon Brando
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Old Brewery In Preston
State Theater In Hutchinson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Franconia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Hanover Bridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Little Marais Inn
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Cobden
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Florence Town Hall
Green Lake Mounds
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Old School In Wolverton
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor 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