Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Twin Cities Area
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Saint Paul Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Apartments
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Eight Days in May Protests
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Greater Minnesota
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Beaver Bay is the oldest white settlement along the North Shore of Lake Superior. It was...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome to Hanska
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Finding The Past In Swatara
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Meyer School In St Augusta
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hollywood Town Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Visiting Golden Gate
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Old Wadena
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Remembering Quadna Resort
Endion School In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Wasioja
Moving Old Hibbing
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Old School In Wolverton
Little Falls Depot
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hanover Bridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Enter Marlon Brando
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Sandstone
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Le Sueur Theater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
State Theater In Hutchinson
Red Wing Iron Works
Old Brewery In Preston
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Milford Monument
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lost Highway 61
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...

