In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
Twin Cities Area
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Apartments
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wilder Public Baths
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Townhomes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Greater Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Lincoln Branch of the Duluth Public Library opened in 1917 thanks to $30,000 from Andrew...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome to Hanska
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hollywood Town Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering Quadna Resort
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Sandstone
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
The Little Marais Inn
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Red Wing Iron Works
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Duluth Homestead Project
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Jordan Brewery Complex
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Wasioja
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
District 48 School Near Delano
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Almelund Creamery
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Le Sueur Theater
Little Falls Depot
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Florence Town Hall
Hanover Bridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Meyer School In St Augusta
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Milford Monument
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Ottawa
Endion School In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Old Wadena
Visiting Golden Gate
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Old School In Wolverton
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Cobden
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lost Highway 61
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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