Constructed in 1897 for $13,000, the First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was designed...
Twin Cities Area
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Horatio Alden Smith made the bulk of his fortune as the co-owner of the Smith and Wyman Sash and...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Apartments
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Townhomes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Saint Paul Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Greater Minnesota
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Lost Highway 61
Welcome to Hanska
The End of the Line in Currie
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood Town Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Green Lake Mounds
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Visiting Golden Gate
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Florence Town Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Ottawa
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Le Sueur Theater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hanover Bridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Wandering Around The Toimi School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Finding The Past In Swatara
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Wasioja
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Old Brewery In Preston
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Remembering Quadna Resort
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Milford Monument
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Duluth Homestead Project
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion Depot In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
The Old School In Wolverton
Moderne New Ulm Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Sandstone
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
The Church of the Holy Cross
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
District 6 School in New Sweden
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Little Marais Inn
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
State Theater In Hutchinson
Moving Old Hibbing
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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