The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
Twin Cities Area
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Townhomes
Greater Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Originally built as the second home of the First Swedish Baptist Church in 1910, the Temple Baptist...
Little Falls Depot
Lost Highway 61
Jordan Brewery Complex
Oxford Mill Ruin
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
District 48 School Near Delano
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Visiting Golden Gate
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome to Hanska
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Franconia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Endion School In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Cobden
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Le Sueur Theater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Dotson
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Sandstone
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Old School In Wolverton
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
State Theater In Hutchinson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hanover Bridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hollywood Town Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Wasioja
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Almelund Creamery
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Old Brewery In Preston
Green Lake Mounds
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Red Wing Iron Works
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Meyer School In St Augusta
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Old Wadena
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Milford Monument
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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