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
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Lowry Hotel opened in 1927 and was 12 floors of pure glamour. An addition was made in 1930 to...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Apartments
District #28 School in Ramsey
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wilder Public Baths
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Churchill Methodist Church is located in present-day Brookfield Township, Minnesota. The...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
The End of the Line in Currie
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Florence Town Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Green Lake Mounds
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hanover Bridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Enter Marlon Brando
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Sandstone
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Remembering Quadna Resort
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Little Falls Depot
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Old Wadena
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Red Wing Iron Works
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moving Old Hibbing
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Almelund Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lincoln Park In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Finding The Past In Swatara
Meyer School In St Augusta
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Le Sueur Theater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome to Hanska
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Visiting Golden Gate
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Wasioja
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Dotson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Duluth Homestead Project
Endion School In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
The Milford Monument
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Franconia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
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 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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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