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
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
District #28 School in Ramsey
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Apartments
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wilder Public Baths
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Robbinsdale Library
Greater Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
Florence Town Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Enter Marlon Brando
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Cobden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hanover Bridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Sandstone
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Oxford Mill Ruin
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The Little Marais Inn
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Ottawa
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bend in the River Regional Park
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Jordan Brewery Complex
Meyer School In St Augusta
Endion Depot In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Endion School In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Remembering Quadna Resort
Visiting Golden Gate
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Moving Old Hibbing
The End of the Line in Currie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Dotson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hollywood Town Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
District 48 School Near Delano
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Wasioja
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Franconia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Finding The Past In Swatara
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lost Highway 61
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
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...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central 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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

