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...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Robbinsdale Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Townhomes
District #28 School in Ramsey
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
In 1929, the Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge was established in Lanesboro, Minnesota. Membership...
Jordan Brewery Complex
During the 1860s, Jordan had become an early industrial center in Scott County and brewing became...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Cobden
The Almelund Creamery
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Florence Town Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion School In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Sandstone
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lost Highway 61
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Le Sueur Theater
District 48 School Near Delano
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Old Brewery In Preston
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bend in the River Regional Park
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Little Falls Depot
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering Quadna Resort
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hanover Bridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
The End of the Line in Currie
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Dotson
Meyer School In St Augusta
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Ottawa
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Visiting Golden Gate
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Enter Marlon Brando
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Finding The Past In Swatara
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Red Wing Iron Works
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Old School In Wolverton
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Moving Old Hibbing
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Wasioja
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Ruins of Sawyer School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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