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