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
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gates of Stonebridge
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
District #28 School in Ramsey
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Greater Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
Welcome To Cobden
Cobden, Minnesota, was incorporated in 1905. The little railroad town included a bank, creamery...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Dotson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hollywood Town Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lost Highway 61
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Endion Depot In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Little Falls Depot
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome to Hanska
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Finding The Past In Swatara
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Moving Old Hibbing
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Visiting Golden Gate
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
State Theater In Hutchinson
Enter Marlon Brando
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hanover Bridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Old School In Wolverton
The Milford Monument
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Green Lake Mounds
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Sandstone
District 6 School in New Sweden
District 48 School Near Delano
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Old Wadena
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Little Marais Inn
Florence Town Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Wasioja
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
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
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

