Constructed in 1897 for $13,000, the First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was designed...
Twin Cities Area
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Robbinsdale Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Eight Days in May Protests
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gates of Stonebridge
Landmark Center In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Planning for a new road for stagecoach travel westward from the Mississippi began in the winter of...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Dotson
The End of the Line in Currie
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Endion Depot In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hollywood Town Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Church of the Holy Cross
State Theater In Hutchinson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
District 6 School in New Sweden
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hanover Bridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Little Marais Inn
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Franconia
Historic Wasioja
The Milford Monument
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
District 48 School Near Delano
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Moving Old Hibbing
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Little Falls Depot
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Brewery In Preston
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Ruins of Sawyer School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Old School In Wolverton
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Endion School In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Le Sueur Theater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Meyer School In St Augusta
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Florence Town Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Duluth Homestead Project
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Ottawa
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Oxford Mill Ruin
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Sandstone
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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