Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Twin Cities Area
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Robbinsdale Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wilder Public Baths
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Townhomes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Eight Days in May Protests
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Apartments
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gates of Stonebridge
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
You can’t drive through Zumbrota, Minnesota, without stopping at the covered bridge. It’s located...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Jordan Brewery Complex
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Ottawa
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Almelund Creamery
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Visiting Golden Gate
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Old School In Wolverton
The Le Sueur Theater
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Franconia
The Milford Monument
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The New Ulm Company Service Station
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Moving Old Hibbing
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lost Highway 61
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Florence Town Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
State Theater In Hutchinson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Endion School In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to Hanska
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Sandstone
The Church of the Holy Cross
Remembering Quadna Resort
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hanover Bridge
Green Lake Mounds
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Duluth Homestead Project
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Moderne New Ulm Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
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...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...

