Names like Louis Comfort Tiffany and Gustav Stickley are well rooted in many American’s minds as...
Twin Cities Area
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Apartments
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
District #28 School in Ramsey
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bend in the River Regional Park
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Remembering Quadna Resort
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Church of the Holy Cross
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Franconia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Red Wing Iron Works
Visiting Golden Gate
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Little Marais Inn
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The End of the Line in Currie
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Milford Monument
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hanover Bridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Le Sueur Theater
District 48 School Near Delano
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hollywood Town Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Endion School In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Oxford Mill Ruin
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
District 6 School in New Sweden
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Old Brewery In Preston
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Enter Marlon Brando
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Cobden
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome to Hanska
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Moving Old Hibbing
Lost Highway 61
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Florence Town Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Moderne New Ulm Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Wasioja
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Little Falls Depot
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Ottawa
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...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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