The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was founded in January 1897. The church...
Twin Cities Area
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Freemasons organized a lodge in Clearwater, Minnesota in 1858 that became known as Masonic...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Endion School In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Almelund Creamery
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hanover Bridge
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Ottawa
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Little Marais Inn
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Cobden
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood Town Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Church of the Holy Cross
Red Wing Iron Works
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
District 48 School Near Delano
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Jordan Brewery Complex
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Brewery In Preston
Little Falls Depot
Endion Depot In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The End of the Line in Currie
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Franconia
Oxford Mill Ruin
Moving Old Hibbing
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Green Lake Mounds
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Wasioja
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Visiting Golden Gate
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Dotson
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Milford Monument
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome to Hanska
Florence Town Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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