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