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
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The first branch library in the Minneapolis Public Library system was built in 1893-1894 and is one...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Apartments
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Robbinsdale Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wandering Around The Toimi School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Finding The Past In Swatara
Endion Depot In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Duluth Homestead Project
Enter Marlon Brando
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lost Highway 61
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
District 6 School in New Sweden
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome to Hanska
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Cobden
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Little Marais Inn
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Almelund Creamery
Green Lake Mounds
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Daniel Piper House in Medford
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Milford Monument
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bend in the River Regional Park
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Old Brewery In Preston
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Visiting Golden Gate
Ruins of Sawyer School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Old School In Wolverton
Moving Old Hibbing
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
Moderne New Ulm Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Endion School In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Ottawa
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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