Built in 1913, the Charles and Grace Parker House was designed by the nationally-prominent Prairie...
Twin Cities Area
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Landmark Center in St Paul, Minnesota, was dedicated in 1902 and originally served as the Federal...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Townhomes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Robbinsdale Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wilder Public Baths
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Florence Town Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lost Highway 61
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion School In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Wasioja
The Almelund Creamery
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Oxford Mill Ruin
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Jordan Brewery Complex
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Little Marais Inn
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Green Lake Mounds
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Remembering Quadna Resort
Ruins of Sawyer School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Old Brewery In Preston
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Dotson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Little Falls Depot
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hollywood Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Duluth Homestead Project
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Sandstone
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Ottawa
Visiting Golden Gate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Milford Monument
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Cobden
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

