Harry F. Legg and his wife Dora were the owners of a jewelry store in downtown Minneapolis in the...
Twin Cities Area
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Constructed in 1869-70, the Metropolitan Hotel once stood at the corner of Washington and Third...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Townhomes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Saint Paul Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to one of the most awe-inspiring buildings in Minnesota. It’s big. It’s...
Little Falls Depot
Construction started on the railroad depot in Little Falls in 1899. It was designed by Cass Gilbert...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome to Hanska
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
District 6 School in New Sweden
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Franconia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Moving Old Hibbing
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Duluth Homestead Project
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Cobden
Old Brewery In Preston
Almond White and the Motley Castle
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lost Highway 61
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Visiting Golden Gate
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Little Marais Inn
State Theater In Hutchinson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Bend in the River Regional Park
Finding The Past In Swatara
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hanover Bridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Wasioja
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Florence Town Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Ottawa
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Enter Marlon Brando
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
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...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill 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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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