In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
Twin Cities Area
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Robbinsdale Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Townhomes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Greater Minnesota
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
William J Mayo was the older of the two Mayo brothers who, along with five partners, founded the...
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bend in the River Regional Park
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Oxford Mill Ruin
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Wasioja
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The End of the Line in Currie
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Visiting Golden Gate
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Florence Town Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome to Hanska
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Cobden
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Ottawa
The Old School In Wolverton
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Le Sueur Theater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Red Wing Iron Works
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Jordan Brewery Complex
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Moving Old Hibbing
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lost Highway 61
Green Lake Mounds
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Meyer School In St Augusta
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Franconia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Finding The Past In Swatara
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Milford Monument
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Almelund Creamery
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion School In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Old Wadena
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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