In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
Twin Cities Area
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gates of Stonebridge
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Townhomes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Landmark Center In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Robbinsdale Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wilder Public Baths
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Beaver Bay is the oldest white settlement along the North Shore of Lake Superior. It was...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
Florence Town Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Little Marais Inn
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Almelund Creamery
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
District 6 School in New Sweden
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Church of the Holy Cross
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Finding The Past In Swatara
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Sandstone
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lundring Service Station in Canby
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hanover Bridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Cobden
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Duluth Homestead Project
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Endion School In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
District 48 School Near Delano
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Wasioja
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion Depot In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lost Highway 61
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Milford Monument
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Oxford Mill Ruin
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Old Brewery In Preston
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Franconia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Ottawa
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Little Falls Depot
Enter Marlon Brando
Green Lake Mounds
The Old School In Wolverton
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...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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