The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Twin Cities Area
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Names like Louis Comfort Tiffany and Gustav Stickley are well rooted in many American’s minds as...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Eight Days in May Protests
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Robbinsdale Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Townhomes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Chisago County State Bank was built in Center City in 1915. In August 1925, more than 60...
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...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
District 6 School in New Sweden
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Dotson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bend in the River Regional Park
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Franconia
Welcome to Hanska
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
District 48 School Near Delano
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Brewery In Preston
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Little Marais Inn
Endion School In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hanover Bridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Milford Monument
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moving Old Hibbing
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Le Sueur Theater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Sandstone
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
Visiting Golden Gate
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Ottawa
Enter Marlon Brando
Hollywood Town Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lost Highway 61
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Moderne New Ulm Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Cobden
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Oxford Mill Ruin
State Theater In Hutchinson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Duluth Homestead Project
The End of the Line in Currie
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Old Wadena
Ruins of Sawyer School
Florence Town Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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