If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
Twin Cities Area
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Landmark Center In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gates of Stonebridge
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Greater Minnesota
Visiting Golden Gate
A post office was first established in Golden Gate, Minnesota, in 1868. The little town sprang up...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Minnesota Home School for Girls was established by the state legislature in 1907 as a...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lost Highway 61
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Endion School In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Old School In Wolverton
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Sandstone
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
District 48 School Near Delano
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Little Marais Inn
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Moderne New Ulm Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Ottawa
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Florence Town Hall
The Milford Monument
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Wasioja
Welcome to Hanska
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hollywood Town Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Green Lake Mounds
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Oxford Mill Ruin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The End of the Line in Currie
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Cobden
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Dotson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Franconia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Moving Old Hibbing
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Red Wing Iron Works
The Le Sueur Theater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Jordan Brewery Complex
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Almelund Creamery
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital 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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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