Names like Louis Comfort Tiffany and Gustav Stickley are well rooted in many American’s minds as...
Twin Cities Area
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
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...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Apartments
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Eight Days in May Protests
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Robbinsdale Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Englanders who settled in the St Croix Valley were drawn there because of the thick, wild...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Little Falls Depot
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Oxford Mill Ruin
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Church of the Holy Cross
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Meyer School In St Augusta
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
District 48 School Near Delano
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Dotson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lost Highway 61
The Almelund Creamery
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
The Milford Monument
Old Brewery In Preston
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bend in the River Regional Park
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Cobden
Red Wing Iron Works
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hanover Bridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Sandstone
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Franconia
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Remembering Quadna Resort
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Old School In Wolverton
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Enter Marlon Brando
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Moving Old Hibbing
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The End of the Line in Currie
The Duluth Homestead Project
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Endion School In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central 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 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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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