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