In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
Twin Cities Area
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Landmark Center In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Apartments
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Robbinsdale Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Eight Days in May Protests
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Early settler and local banker Edson Smith built this French Second Empire style home for his...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lincoln Park In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
District 6 School in New Sweden
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Little Marais Inn
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Oxford Mill Ruin
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Sandstone
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Church of the Holy Cross
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The End of the Line in Currie
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Milford Monument
The Old School In Wolverton
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Dotson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome to Hanska
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hollywood Town Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hanover Bridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Cobden
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Old Brewery In Preston
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Endion School In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
District 48 School Near Delano
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Enter Marlon Brando
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Ottawa
Remembering Quadna Resort
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Almelund Creamery
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Visiting Golden Gate
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Jordan Brewery Complex
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...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn 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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...

