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
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Originally named the Palazzo, the Colonnade Hotel opened on St. Peter Street in Saint Paul in 1888...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Robbinsdale Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Greater Minnesota
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Settled in 1854 by Pennsylvania native Benjamin Spencer, Spencer Brook was one of the first...
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Little Marais Inn
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lost Highway 61
Old Brewery In Preston
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Milford Monument
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Remembering Quadna Resort
Little Falls Depot
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Visiting Golden Gate
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Wasioja
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Cobden
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Duluth Homestead Project
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Ruins of Sawyer School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
The Church of the Holy Cross
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hanover Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Almond White and the Motley Castle
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Le Sueur Theater
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
The Old School In Wolverton
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
District 48 School Near Delano
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Florence Town Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Almelund Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hollywood Town Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdingerโs grist mill in the...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesotaโs biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...

