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
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wilder Public Baths
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Saint Paul Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Apartments
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The public library in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota was built in 1913 with a $10,000 grant from Andrew...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Orpheum Theater in Duluth, Minnesota, was built on the old Temple Opera House site. The opera...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome to Hanska
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Endion School In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Visiting Golden Gate
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Church of the Holy Cross
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Dotson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Franconia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Florence Town Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
The End of the Line in Currie
Green Lake Mounds
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Wasioja
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
District 48 School Near Delano
The Almelund Creamery
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
District 6 School in New Sweden
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lost Highway 61
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Enter Marlon Brando
Red Wing Iron Works
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Old School In Wolverton
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Moving Old Hibbing
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Ottawa
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Duluth Homestead Project
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Endion Depot In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
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...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
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