University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
Twin Cities Area
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Townhomes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Apartments
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Greater Minnesota
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Endion Depot in Duluth, Minnesota, was moved to Canal Park in 1986 to make way for the...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Florence Town Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Little Marais Inn
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Dotson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Moving Old Hibbing
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hanover Bridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Ottawa
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Endion School In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
State Theater In Hutchinson
Meyer School In St Augusta
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Almelund Creamery
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Enter Marlon Brando
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Duluth Homestead Project
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Le Sueur Theater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Jordan Brewery Complex
Moderne New Ulm Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Milford Monument
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Wasioja
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Franconia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Visiting Golden Gate
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Old Brewery In Preston
Hollywood Town Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Red Wing Iron Works
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Little Falls Depot
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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