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