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
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of Food
Betty Crocker was born in a boardroom of The Washburn-Crosby Company of Minneapolis in 1921. A...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Saint Paul Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Greater Minnesota
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
The Milford Monument
Exploring Sandstone
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Old School In Wolverton
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Wasioja
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Dotson
Lost Highway 61
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Visiting Golden Gate
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Wandering Around The Toimi School
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Endion Depot In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Oxford Mill Ruin
District 6 School in New Sweden
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Green Lake Mounds
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Le Sueur Theater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hanover Bridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome to Hanska
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Meyer School In St Augusta
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Little Marais Inn
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Enter Marlon Brando
Little Falls Depot
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Moving Old Hibbing
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Cobden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Remembering Quadna Resort
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Old Wadena
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Ottawa
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hollywood Town Hall
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...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
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