Constructed in 1897 for $13,000, the First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was designed...
Twin Cities Area
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The District #28 School was constructed in Ramsey in 1892 to replace a smaller, wood frame school...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Townhomes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Robbinsdale Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Apartments
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Florence Town Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
State Theater In Hutchinson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Little Marais Inn
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Wasioja
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Dotson
Hanover Bridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Green Lake Mounds
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Oxford Mill Ruin
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
District 48 School Near Delano
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lost Highway 61
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome to Hanska
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bend in the River Regional Park
Ruins of Sawyer School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Almelund Creamery
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Cobden
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Le Sueur Theater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Sandstone
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Franconia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Endion School In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The End of the Line in Currie
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Little Falls Depot
Endion Depot In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
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...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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