Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Twin Cities Area
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Robbinsdale Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Landmark Center In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Blaisdell Manor 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...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
William Colvill — does that name ring a bell? Unless you're a Civil War history buff, this name...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Old Wadena
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood Town Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hanover Bridge
The Old School In Wolverton
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lost Highway 61
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Moving Old Hibbing
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Florence Town Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Little Falls Depot
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Meyer School In St Augusta
District 48 School Near Delano
Old Brewery In Preston
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Franconia
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Dotson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bend in the River Regional Park
Green Lake Mounds
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Little Marais Inn
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Visiting Golden Gate
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The End of the Line in Currie
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
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