Constructed in 1897 for $13,000, the First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was designed...
Twin Cities Area
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Construction on the Hamm Building in downtown St Paul began in 1915 and was completed in 1920. The...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gates of Stonebridge
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Apartments
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Greater Minnesota
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
William J Mayo was the older of the two Mayo brothers who, along with five partners, founded the...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Arthur Orr was a 286’ steel package freighter built by the Chicago Ship Building Company. She...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Ottawa
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Hollywood Town Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion Depot In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The End of the Line in Currie
Jordan Brewery Complex
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Enter Marlon Brando
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Moving Old Hibbing
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Old Wadena
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Endion School In Duluth
The Milford Monument
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Hanover Bridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Old School In Wolverton
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Sandstone
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
District 6 School in New Sweden
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Cobden
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Red Wing Iron Works
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Green Lake Mounds
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Le Sueur Theater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Visiting Golden Gate
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Franconia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moderne New Ulm Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 48 School Near Delano
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lost Highway 61
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Florence Town Hall
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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