The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Twin Cities Area
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
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...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Townhomes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Greater Minnesota
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Moving Old Hibbing
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
The End of the Line in Currie
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Enter Marlon Brando
Hollywood Town Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hanover Bridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Endion School In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Meyer School In St Augusta
District 48 School Near Delano
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Duluth Homestead Project
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Milford Monument
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Old Wadena
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Finding The Past In Swatara
Visiting Golden Gate
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome to Hanska
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Florence Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Moderne New Ulm Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Remembering Quadna Resort
Munger Terrace In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Old School In Wolverton
Lost Highway 61
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Cobden
The Almelund Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Green Lake Mounds
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Little Marais Inn
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Wasioja
Historic Franconia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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