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
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...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wilder Public Baths
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gates of Stonebridge
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Greater Minnesota
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Before the Interstate Bridge was built between Duluth and Superior in the late-1890s, the only way...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Scottish immigrant James G Craigie settled in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, along with his wife...
Historic Franconia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Le Sueur Theater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Moderne New Ulm Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Jordan Brewery Complex
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Endion School In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Ottawa
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lost Highway 61
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
The End of the Line in Currie
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Florence Town Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Cobden
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Almelund Creamery
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bend in the River Regional Park
Red Wing Iron Works
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Moving Old Hibbing
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Dotson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hanover Bridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Sandstone
The Duluth Homestead Project
Endion Depot In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hollywood Town Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
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...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
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