University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
Twin Cities Area
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
It may have been luck that spared the Colonnade Hotel the same fate as so many other old downtown...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Townhomes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Greater Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The George and Charlotte Crosby house is located just a few blocks east of downtown Duluth...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Milford Monument
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Meyer School In St Augusta
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Florence Town Hall
Historic Wasioja
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
State Theater In Hutchinson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Franconia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Almelund Creamery
Finding The Past In Swatara
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Endion Depot In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Green Lake Mounds
The Le Sueur Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lost Highway 61
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Moving Old Hibbing
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Hanover Bridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Visiting Golden Gate
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Enter Marlon Brando
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Ottawa
Little Falls Depot
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Jordan Brewery Complex
Remembering Quadna Resort
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Church of the Holy Cross
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Old School In Wolverton
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hollywood Town Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Red Wing Iron Works
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
District 6 School in New Sweden
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome to Hanska
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown