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
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
It may have been luck that spared the Colonnade Hotel the same fate as so many other old downtown...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wilder Public Baths
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Greater Minnesota
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Florence Town Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hanover Bridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
State Theater In Hutchinson
The End of the Line in Currie
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Milford Monument
Lost Highway 61
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moderne New Ulm Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
The New Ulm Company Service Station
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Green Lake Mounds
Endion School In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Wasioja
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome To Old Wadena
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Meyer School In St Augusta
Almond White and the Motley Castle
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Enter Marlon Brando
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Endion Depot In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome to Hanska
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Franconia
District 48 School Near Delano
The Almelund Creamery
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Old Brewery In Preston
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Dotson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Ottawa
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Sandstone
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Finding The Past In Swatara
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Ruins of Sawyer School
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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