The Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis was one of the rare mills in the city that had four finished...
Twin Cities Area
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Constructed in 1869-70, the Metropolitan Hotel once stood at the corner of Washington and Third...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wilder Public Baths
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Greater Minnesota
The Milford Monument
This monument was created in memory of the 53 women, men, and children that were killed in Milford...
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...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The End of the Line in Currie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Dotson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Ottawa
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hanover Bridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Meyer School In St Augusta
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Wasioja
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
The Old School In Wolverton
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lost Highway 61
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lincoln Park In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Little Marais Inn
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Green Lake Mounds
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
District 6 School in New Sweden
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Moderne New Ulm Library
Florence Town Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
State Theater In Hutchinson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Little Falls Depot
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Jordan Brewery Complex
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Sandstone
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood Town Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Cobden
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Old Brewery In Preston
Enter Marlon Brando
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Franconia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Almelund Creamery
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
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...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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
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
Old Brewery In Preston