This beauty was built in 1914 and is St Paul’s largest Prairie Style house at just under 3,000...
Twin Cities Area
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles G. Jackson immigrated to the U.S. and purchased the Anoka House, the oldest hotel in Anoka...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Saint Paul Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wilder Public Baths
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Apartments
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Greater Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Frederick E. Murphy was known as the publisher and guiding spirit of the Minneapolis Tribune...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The New Ulm Company Service Station
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Church of the Holy Cross
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Red Wing Iron Works
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lundring Service Station in Canby
District 48 School Near Delano
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Ottawa
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Cobden
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Finding The Past In Swatara
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The End of the Line in Currie
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Florence Town Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lost Highway 61
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Franconia
The Almelund Creamery
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Dotson
Moving Old Hibbing
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Le Sueur Theater
Little Falls Depot
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Old School In Wolverton
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Little Marais Inn
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Sandstone
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Wasioja
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hanover Bridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Oxford Mill Ruin
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Endion School In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Enter Marlon Brando
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
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...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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