Built in 1913, the Charles and Grace Parker House was designed by the nationally-prominent Prairie...
Twin Cities Area
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Townhomes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Robbinsdale Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Apartments
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wilder Public Baths
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
In 1929, the Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge was established in Lanesboro, Minnesota. Membership...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Visiting Golden Gate
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Little Marais Inn
District 48 School Near Delano
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lost Highway 61
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Red Wing Iron Works
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Le Sueur Theater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Old School In Wolverton
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Wasioja
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Little Falls Depot
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Sandstone
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Old Brewery In Preston
The Almelund Creamery
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Green Lake Mounds
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Jordan Brewery Complex
Ruins of Sawyer School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Moving Old Hibbing
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Florence Town Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Endion School In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Franconia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Enter Marlon Brando
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome to Hanska
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
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...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
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...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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
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