Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Twin Cities Area
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The McKnight’s Park Avenue mansion was completed in 1892 for a total cost of nearly $36,000...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Saint Paul Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Apartments
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Greater Minnesota
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
I’m sure we’ve all made typos that made us cringe once we noticed them. But most of our...
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
The Church of the Holy Cross
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion School In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Little Marais Inn
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lost Highway 61
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hollywood Town Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Wasioja
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
District 6 School in New Sweden
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Dotson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Jordan Brewery Complex
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Red Wing Iron Works
The End of the Line in Currie
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Enter Marlon Brando
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Milford Monument
Exploring Ottawa
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
District 48 School Near Delano
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Visiting Golden Gate
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Florence Town Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Ruins of Sawyer School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Oxford Mill Ruin
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Le Sueur Theater
The Almelund Creamery
Endion Depot In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Franconia
Little Falls Depot
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
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...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
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...

