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
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wilder Public Baths
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Saint Paul Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Greater Minnesota
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
September 24, 1909 At 4:20 a.m., an off-duty worker at the Fergus Falls City Light Station woke up...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Donald and Carrie Balfour house in Rochester, Minnesota, is a lovely example of how an Arts and...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Milford Monument
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Le Sueur Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Dotson
The End of the Line in Currie
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bend in the River Regional Park
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lost Highway 61
Moving Old Hibbing
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Duluth Homestead Project
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
District 48 School Near Delano
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Cobden
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Visiting Golden Gate
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hollywood Town Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Endion School In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Red Wing Iron Works
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Endion Depot In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hanover Bridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Green Lake Mounds
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Little Marais Inn
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Wasioja
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Ruins of Sawyer School
Moderne New Ulm Library
Florence Town Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Jordan Brewery Complex
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Little Falls Depot
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Old Wadena
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome to Hanska
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Franconia
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
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...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

