University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
Twin Cities Area
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wilder Public Baths
It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Saint Paul Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Robbinsdale Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Scottish immigrant James G Craigie settled in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, along with his wife...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Ottawa
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Cobden
Endion School In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Old School In Wolverton
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Old Brewery In Preston
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Visiting Golden Gate
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lost Highway 61
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Ruins of Sawyer School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Incline Railway
State Theater In Hutchinson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Green Lake Mounds
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The End of the Line in Currie
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Little Falls Depot
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
District 48 School Near Delano
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hanover Bridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Little Marais Inn
Hollywood Town Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome to Hanska
Jordan Brewery Complex
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Almelund Creamery
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Red Wing Iron Works
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Wasioja
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Le Sueur Theater
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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