Built in 1913, the Charles and Grace Parker House was designed by the nationally-prominent Prairie...
Twin Cities Area
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Apartments
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Greater Minnesota
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Munger Terrace has been a landmark in Duluth’s Central Hillside neighborhood since the building was...
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
Hollywood Town Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Remembering Quadna Resort
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Sandstone
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Moderne New Ulm Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Finding The Past In Swatara
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Hanover Bridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Le Sueur Theater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Green Lake Mounds
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Franconia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Moving Old Hibbing
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Red Wing Iron Works
Little Falls Depot
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Dotson
Endion School In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Old School In Wolverton
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Almelund Creamery
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Wasioja
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Florence Town Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Jordan Brewery Complex
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Ruins of Sawyer School
Endion Depot In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
District 6 School in New Sweden
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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