Built between 1902 and 1904, this beautiful building on its shady lot served southeast Minneapolis...
Twin Cities Area
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Saint Paul Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Robbinsdale Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Eight Days in May Protests
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Townhomes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
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...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Free Public Library in Hutchinson, Minnesota, was first organized in 1874 by early settlers of...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
District 6 School in New Sweden
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Ottawa
Taylor House In Le Sueur
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Church of the Holy Cross
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Sandstone
The Almelund Creamery
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hollywood Town Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Franconia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Moving Old Hibbing
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Green Lake Mounds
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Enter Marlon Brando
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hanover Bridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Cobden
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Meyer School In St Augusta
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Dotson
State Theater In Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Visiting Golden Gate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
District 48 School Near Delano
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Jordan Brewery Complex
Red Wing Iron Works
Oxford Mill Ruin
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Milford Monument
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Le Sueur Theater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Florence Town Hall
Little Falls Depot
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Little Marais Inn
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Brewery In Preston
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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