This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
Twin Cities Area
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Landmark Center In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Bally Blacksmith Shop opened in 1911 when Sam Bally left his job at a sawmill to open his own...
Oxford Mill Ruin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Old School In Wolverton
Jordan Brewery Complex
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
District 6 School in New Sweden
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome to Hanska
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Red Wing Iron Works
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Cobden
The New Ulm Company Service Station
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Meyer School In St Augusta
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Duluth Homestead Project
Ruins of Sawyer School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Le Sueur Theater
The End of the Line in Currie
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Endion Depot In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Moderne New Ulm Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Old Brewery In Preston
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Green Lake Mounds
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Almelund Creamery
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Little Falls Depot
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Milford Monument
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hanover Bridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Sandstone
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Wasioja
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
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...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
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