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
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Townhomes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Greater Minnesota
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Memories are made at the lake. Whether you’re lucky enough to go every weekend in the summer...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
You can’t drive through Zumbrota, Minnesota, without stopping at the covered bridge. It’s located...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Florence Town Hall
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Milford Monument
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Finding The Past In Swatara
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Le Sueur Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Oxford Mill Ruin
Moving Old Hibbing
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Dotson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bend in the River Regional Park
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Sandstone
Hanover Bridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Cobden
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Enter Marlon Brando
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Old Wadena
District 48 School Near Delano
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Visiting Golden Gate
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Brewery In Preston
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion School In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Red Wing Iron Works
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hollywood Town Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Duluth Homestead Project
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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