The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Twin Cities Area
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Robbinsdale Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Greater Minnesota
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Churchill Methodist Church is located in present-day Brookfield Township, Minnesota. The...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
In 1909, just eight years after this school was built in Sandstone, lightning struck. Sadly, the...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Sandstone
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lost Highway 61
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Cobden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Old Brewery In Preston
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hollywood Town Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Milford Monument
Red Wing Iron Works
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome to Hanska
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Visiting Golden Gate
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
State Theater In Hutchinson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Church of the Holy Cross
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bend in the River Regional Park
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Enter Marlon Brando
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Almelund Creamery
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Little Falls Depot
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Moving Old Hibbing
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Little Marais Inn
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Florence Town Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Ottawa
The Le Sueur Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Dotson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
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 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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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