World-renowned author F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in an apartment on the second floor of this...
Twin Cities Area
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Landmark Center In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Robbinsdale Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Apartments
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Meyer School In St Augusta
The original District 35 (Meyer) school was a log structure built around 1868. As the population of...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hanover Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lost Highway 61
District 6 School in New Sweden
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Church of the Holy Cross
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Franconia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Endion School In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bend in the River Regional Park
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Wasioja
Enter Marlon Brando
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Little Marais Inn
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Cobden
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
District 48 School Near Delano
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Finding The Past In Swatara
Old Brewery In Preston
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Milford Monument
State Theater In Hutchinson
Moderne New Ulm Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Almelund Creamery
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome to Hanska
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Le Sueur Theater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Florence Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Green Lake Mounds
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
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...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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