University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
Twin Cities Area
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Robbinsdale Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wilder Public Baths
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Apartments
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Before the Interstate Bridge was built between Duluth and Superior in the late-1890s, the only way...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Oxford Mill Ruin
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Le Sueur Theater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Green Lake Mounds
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hanover Bridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Dotson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Little Marais Inn
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Duluth Homestead Project
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Moderne New Ulm Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The End of the Line in Currie
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
District 48 School Near Delano
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Florence Town Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Cobden
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Sandstone
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Endion Depot In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Franconia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome to Hanska
The Church of the Holy Cross
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Old Wadena
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Old Brewery In Preston
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Milford Monument
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Wasioja
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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