Built in 1913, the Charles and Grace Parker House was designed by the nationally-prominent Prairie...
Twin Cities Area
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Apartments
The Eight Days in May Protests
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wilder Public Baths
Robbinsdale Library
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Saint Paul Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Donald and Carrie Balfour house in Rochester, Minnesota, is a lovely example of how an Arts and...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Adolph Biermann house in Rochester is the oldest documented structure in the Mayowood Historic...
Bend in the River Regional Park
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The End of the Line in Currie
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hanover Bridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Sandstone
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Remembering Quadna Resort
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome to Hanska
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lost Highway 61
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Cobden
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Dotson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Le Sueur Theater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
The Church of the Holy Cross
Finding The Past In Swatara
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
State Theater In Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Ottawa
The Milford Monument
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Little Falls Depot
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hollywood Town Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Jordan Brewery Complex
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
The Duluth Homestead Project
Moving Old Hibbing
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Enter Marlon Brando
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Florence Town Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Almelund Creamery
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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