Harry F. Legg and his wife Dora were the owners of a jewelry store in downtown Minneapolis in the...
Twin Cities Area
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The St Paul Hotel has been the backbone of charm and elegance in downtown St Paul since it opened...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Apartments
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Settled in 1854 by Pennsylvania native Benjamin Spencer, Spencer Brook was one of the first...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Early settler and local banker Edson Smith built this French Second Empire style home for his...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Old Wadena
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Milford Monument
Historic Franconia
Visiting Golden Gate
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Dotson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Incline Railway
District 48 School Near Delano
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hollywood Town Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Cobden
Ruins of Sawyer School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Remembering Quadna Resort
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Meyer School In St Augusta
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bend in the River Regional Park
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Little Marais Inn
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Red Wing Iron Works
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Little Falls Depot
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome to Hanska
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Ottawa
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Wasioja
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hanover Bridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
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
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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