The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
Twin Cities Area
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Names like Louis Comfort Tiffany and Gustav Stickley are well rooted in many American’s minds as...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Apartments
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
District #28 School in Ramsey
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wilder Public Baths
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Greater Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
The Little Marais Inn
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome to Hanska
Endion School In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Meyer School In St Augusta
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Old School In Wolverton
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
District 48 School Near Delano
The Almelund Creamery
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moving Old Hibbing
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Franconia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Moderne New Ulm Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Florence Town Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Milford Monument
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Sandstone
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hanover Bridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lost Highway 61
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Old Wadena
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Little Falls Depot
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Le Sueur Theater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Old Brewery In Preston
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bend in the River Regional Park
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
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 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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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