Built in 1913, the Charles and Grace Parker House was designed by the nationally-prominent Prairie...
Twin Cities Area
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
Robbinsdale Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Apartments
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Greater Minnesota
The End of the Line in Currie
In 1899, the Des Moines Valley Railway Company began work on a plan to extend their rail line in...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Endion Depot In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Church of the Holy Cross
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lost Highway 61
Moderne New Ulm Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Old School In Wolverton
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
District 6 School in New Sweden
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Little Marais Inn
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Almelund Creamery
District 48 School Near Delano
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hollywood Town Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering Quadna Resort
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Cobden
Oxford Mill Ruin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
Hanover Bridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Franconia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Old Brewery In Preston
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Le Sueur Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Enter Marlon Brando
Almond White and the Motley Castle
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
State Theater In Hutchinson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Ottawa
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Sandstone
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Dotson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Finding The Past In Swatara
Moving Old Hibbing
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Wasioja
Taylor House In Le Sueur
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...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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