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
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Saint Paul Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Robbinsdale Library
Wilder Public Baths
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge (Svenska Mission Kyrka i Sodre Maple Ridge)...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State Hospital
In 1873, the State of Minnesota was looking for a way to house an increasingly problematic group of...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Old Brewery In Preston
Florence Town Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Enter Marlon Brando
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Dotson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
District 6 School in New Sweden
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Meyer School In St Augusta
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hanover Bridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Old School In Wolverton
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Moving Old Hibbing
Red Wing Iron Works
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Jordan Brewery Complex
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome to Hanska
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lost Highway 61
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Duluth Homestead Project
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Little Falls Depot
Green Lake Mounds
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Sandstone
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Wasioja
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Le Sueur Theater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Endion School In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
District 48 School Near Delano
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...

