The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
Twin Cities Area
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George H. Christian was a manager at the Washburn-Crosby Company in Minneapolis who worked out a...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Apartments
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Robbinsdale Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Greater Minnesota
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Arthur Orr was a 286’ steel package freighter built by the Chicago Ship Building Company. She...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Florence Town Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Enter Marlon Brando
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Sandstone
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Little Falls Depot
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Dotson
Hollywood Town Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Jordan Brewery Complex
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The End of the Line in Currie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Cobden
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
District 48 School Near Delano
The Church of the Holy Cross
District 6 School in New Sweden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Little Marais Inn
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Le Sueur Theater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Wasioja
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Remembering Quadna Resort
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome to Hanska
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Duluth Homestead Project
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion School In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lost Highway 61
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Ottawa
Moving Old Hibbing
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Old School In Wolverton
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Ruins of Sawyer School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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
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
Old Brewery In Preston