University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
Twin Cities Area
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
On March 22, 1836, Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark married Lieutenant Horatio Phillips Van Cleve a few...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
District #28 School in Ramsey
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gates of Stonebridge
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Cobden
Cobden, Minnesota, was incorporated in 1905. The little railroad town included a bank, creamery...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Arthur Orr was a 286’ steel package freighter built by the Chicago Ship Building Company. She...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lost Highway 61
The Le Sueur Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Ottawa
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Meyer School In St Augusta
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Moving Old Hibbing
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Incline Railway
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hanover Bridge
Little Falls Depot
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Oxford Mill Ruin
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Sandstone
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Milford Monument
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
District 48 School Near Delano
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Finding The Past In Swatara
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Little Marais Inn
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Dotson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Franconia
Historic Wasioja
Ruins of Sawyer School
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Duluth Homestead Project
Remembering Quadna Resort
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Old Wadena
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Jordan Brewery Complex
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Florence Town Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Visiting Golden Gate
Moderne New Ulm Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
State Theater In Hutchinson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The End of the Line in Currie
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Green Lake Mounds
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
District 6 School in New Sweden
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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