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
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
In 1899, the Twin City Rapid Transit Company extended its reach of their streetcars to the...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Townhomes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Pine Tree Lumber Company was established in Little Falls in 1890. Located on the banks of the...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
St Rose of Lima church was built in 1878. The church and its cemetery sit on over an acre of land...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The End of the Line in Currie
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Milford Monument
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Old School In Wolverton
Finding The Past In Swatara
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Green Lake Mounds
Hollywood Town Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Moving Old Hibbing
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Sandstone
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Wasioja
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Ruins of Sawyer School
Jordan Brewery Complex
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Visiting Golden Gate
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Enter Marlon Brando
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Almelund Creamery
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Little Falls Depot
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Old Wadena
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Florence Town Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lost Highway 61
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Little Marais Inn
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Old Brewery In Preston
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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