If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
Twin Cities Area
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Saint Paul Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Greater Minnesota
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Duluth Homestead Project
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bend in the River Regional Park
State Theater In Hutchinson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Almelund Creamery
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Florence Town Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Milford Monument
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Red Wing Iron Works
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Dotson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Old Brewery In Preston
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Finding The Past In Swatara
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Franconia
Hollywood Town Hall
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Little Falls Depot
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Enter Marlon Brando
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Sandstone
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hanover Bridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Endion School In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Moving Old Hibbing
District 48 School Near Delano
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Cobden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Ottawa
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
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...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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