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
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
District #28 School in Ramsey
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge (Svenska Mission Kyrka i Sodre Maple Ridge)...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
In 1872, Joseph Schmucker took over operation of Friton Brewery, which was the first brewery to...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Almelund Creamery
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Le Sueur Theater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Oxford Mill Ruin
Meyer School In St Augusta
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Ruins of Sawyer School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Endion School In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood Town Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Dotson
Remembering Quadna Resort
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Old Brewery In Preston
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hanover Bridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Little Marais Inn
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Franconia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Ottawa
Lost Highway 61
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Almond White and the Motley Castle
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The End of the Line in Currie
Florence Town Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
State Theater In Hutchinson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Old School In Wolverton
The Milford Monument
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Red Wing Iron Works
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

