The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
Twin Cities Area
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Robbinsdale Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Adolph Biermann house in Rochester is the oldest documented structure in the Mayowood Historic...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Lost Highway 61
Endion School In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Cobden
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
District 6 School in New Sweden
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bend in the River Regional Park
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Green Lake Mounds
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Almelund Creamery
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Brewery In Preston
Hanover Bridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Old School In Wolverton
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
State Theater In Hutchinson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Duluth Homestead Project
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Church of the Holy Cross
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The End of the Line in Currie
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Florence Town Hall
Historic Franconia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Moving Old Hibbing
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Wasioja
The Little Marais Inn
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Ottawa
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Visiting Golden Gate
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Milford Monument
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Little Falls Depot
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Sandstone
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

