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
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Built between 1902 and 1904, this beautiful building on its shady lot served southeast Minneapolis...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Townhomes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
District #28 School in Ramsey
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Greater Minnesota
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to one of the most awe-inspiring buildings in Minnesota. It’s big. It’s...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s Town
When Samuel Pandolfo arrived in St. Cloud in 1917, he dreamed of building an automobile empire that...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Ottawa
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Moderne New Ulm Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The End of the Line in Currie
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
The Duluth Homestead Project
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Milford Monument
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Old School In Wolverton
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Incline Railway
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Franconia
State Theater In Hutchinson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Little Marais Inn
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Wasioja
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
District 6 School in New Sweden
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Little Falls Depot
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Florence Town Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Enter Marlon Brando
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Visiting Golden Gate
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Old Brewery In Preston
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Le Sueur Theater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Sandstone
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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