University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
Twin Cities Area
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
In March 1963, the Twin Cities were rocked by a shocking and brutal crime – the murder of Carol...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Saint Paul Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Eight Days in May Protests
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Apartments
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Greater Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
This old stone chapel was built at the Sunrise Funeral Home and Cemetery in 1949. Located in...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Florence Town Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Visiting Golden Gate
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bend in the River Regional Park
District 48 School Near Delano
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
State Theater In Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Little Falls Depot
The Almelund Creamery
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Munger Terrace In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Endion School In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Wasioja
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Sandstone
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome to Hanska
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Ruins of Sawyer School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Hanover Bridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Moving Old Hibbing
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Green Lake Mounds
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Enter Marlon Brando
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Remembering Quadna Resort
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hollywood Town Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Franconia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Dotson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Ottawa
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Old Brewery In Preston
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
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...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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