The Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis was one of the rare mills in the city that had four finished...
Twin Cities Area
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
It may have been luck that spared the Colonnade Hotel the same fate as so many other old downtown...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Robbinsdale Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Landmark Center In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Apartments
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wilder Public Baths
Greater Minnesota
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Ok, stick with me here. Can you remember how your elementary school smelled? I can. Vividly. A hint...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Have you ever wondered how Minnesota became known as the land of 10,000 lakes? Every Minnesotan...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lost Highway 61
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Little Marais Inn
Hanover Bridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Dotson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Florence Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Wasioja
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Endion Depot In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Almelund Creamery
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Sandstone
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hollywood Town Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Milford Monument
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Jordan Brewery Complex
District 48 School Near Delano
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Little Falls Depot
Oxford Mill Ruin
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Finding The Past In Swatara
Moving Old Hibbing
Ruins of Sawyer School
Moderne New Ulm Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Red Wing Iron Works
The Old School In Wolverton
Remembering Quadna Resort
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Old Brewery In Preston
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The End of the Line in Currie
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome to Hanska
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Cobden
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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