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
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wilder Public Baths
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Apartments
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
After one hundred and twenty years, the mystery of what happened to Clara Ober between the evening...
Endion School In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Cobden
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The End of the Line in Currie
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hanover Bridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Little Marais Inn
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Church of the Holy Cross
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Moderne New Ulm Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Ottawa
Moving Old Hibbing
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hollywood Town Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
District 48 School Near Delano
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Wasioja
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Sandstone
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome to Hanska
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Little Falls Depot
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Remembering Quadna Resort
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Almelund Creamery
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Green Lake Mounds
The Old School In Wolverton
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Le Sueur Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Old Brewery In Preston
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Franconia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Visiting Golden Gate
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Enter Marlon Brando
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Endion Depot In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
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 Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

