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