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