Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Twin Cities Area
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Constructed in 1897 for $13,000, the First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was designed...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wilder Public Baths
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
District #28 School in Ramsey
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Greater Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rumors of copper riches hidden in the North Shore's streams and hillsides had excited the...
The Old School In Wolverton
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Cobden
Little Falls Depot
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hanover Bridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Dotson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Visiting Golden Gate
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Finding The Past In Swatara
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Brewery In Preston
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The End of the Line in Currie
Enter Marlon Brando
Florence Town Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Jordan Brewery Complex
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Moderne New Ulm Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Ottawa
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hollywood Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Milford Monument
Green Lake Mounds
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac 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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

