This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
Twin Cities Area
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Apartments
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gates of Stonebridge
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rumors of copper riches hidden in the North Shore's streams and hillsides had excited the...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Brewery In Preston
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
District 48 School Near Delano
The Old School In Wolverton
Jordan Brewery Complex
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Hanover Bridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Little Marais Inn
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Little Falls Depot
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
State Theater In Hutchinson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Wasioja
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Moderne New Ulm Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Endion School In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Church of the Holy Cross
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Moving Old Hibbing
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The End of the Line in Currie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Enter Marlon Brando
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lost Highway 61
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Le Sueur Theater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome to Hanska
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Duluth Homestead Project
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Ottawa
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Milford Monument
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Meyer School In St Augusta
Green Lake Mounds
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Sandstone
Finding The Past In Swatara
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Endion Depot In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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