Names like Louis Comfort Tiffany and Gustav Stickley are well rooted in many American’s minds as...
Twin Cities Area
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Robbinsdale Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Saint Paul Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wilder Public Baths
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Greater Minnesota
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Scottish immigrant James G Craigie settled in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, along with his wife...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to one of the most awe-inspiring buildings in Minnesota. It’s big. It’s...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Florence Town Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Bend in the River Regional Park
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Little Marais Inn
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Little Falls Depot
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
State Theater In Hutchinson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Duluth Homestead Project
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Church of the Holy Cross
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Endion Depot In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Dotson
Hollywood Town Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Meyer School In St Augusta
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Visiting Golden Gate
Enter Marlon Brando
Oxford Mill Ruin
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Wasioja
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Franconia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome to Hanska
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Sandstone
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Milford Monument
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Red Wing Iron Works
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Endion School In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Ottawa
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Lost Highway 61
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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