The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Twin Cities Area
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wilder Public Baths
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gates of Stonebridge
Greater Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Oxford Mill Ruin
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Sandstone
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Green Lake Mounds
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Dotson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Ottawa
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Cobden
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Wasioja
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hanover Bridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Franconia
Moving Old Hibbing
Old Brewery In Preston
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The End of the Line in Currie
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Little Falls Depot
Jordan Brewery Complex
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Old Wadena
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Old School In Wolverton
Florence Town Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Red Wing Iron Works
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Meyer School In St Augusta
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lost Highway 61
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
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...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
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 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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
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...

