Names like Louis Comfort Tiffany and Gustav Stickley are well rooted in many American’s minds as...
Twin Cities Area
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wilder Public Baths
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Townhomes
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Landmark Center In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gates of Stonebridge
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Red Wing Iron Works
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hanover Bridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Duluth Homestead Project
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome to Hanska
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Moderne New Ulm Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Jordan Brewery Complex
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
District 48 School Near Delano
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Old School In Wolverton
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Enter Marlon Brando
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Little Marais Inn
Ruins of Sawyer School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Cobden
Endion School In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Wasioja
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
Green Lake Mounds
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Little Falls Depot
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
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...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
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