It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
Twin Cities Area
Wilder Public Baths
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s Town
When Samuel Pandolfo arrived in St. Cloud in 1917, he dreamed of building an automobile empire that...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Lincoln Branch of the Duluth Public Library opened in 1917 thanks to $30,000 from Andrew...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome to Hanska
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Cobden
The Milford Monument
The End of the Line in Currie
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Red Wing Iron Works
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taylor House In Le Sueur
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Wasioja
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Florence Town Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Endion School In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Dotson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Green Lake Mounds
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Little Falls Depot
Ruins of Sawyer School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Sandstone
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Almond White and the Motley Castle
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
The Almelund Creamery
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Moderne New Ulm Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Jordan Brewery Complex
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hollywood Town Hall
Hanover Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lost Highway 61
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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