Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Twin Cities Area
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
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...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Robbinsdale Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Townhomes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
In 1909, just eight years after this school was built in Sandstone, lightning struck. Sadly, the...
Visiting Golden Gate
A post office was first established in Golden Gate, Minnesota, in 1868. The little town sprang up...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Old Brewery In Preston
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hollywood Town Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Jordan Brewery Complex
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Sandstone
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Endion Depot In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Church of the Holy Cross
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Enter Marlon Brando
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The End of the Line in Currie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lost Highway 61
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Little Falls Depot
The Little Marais Inn
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Green Lake Mounds
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Endion School In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
District 6 School in New Sweden
Florence Town Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Cobden
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Almelund Creamery
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Franconia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome to Hanska
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Finding The Past In Swatara
Remembering Quadna Resort
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Moving Old Hibbing
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Ottawa
The Old School In Wolverton
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Moderne New Ulm Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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