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
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Robbinsdale Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Apartments
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
Visiting Golden Gate
A post office was first established in Golden Gate, Minnesota, in 1868. The little town sprang up...
District 48 School Near Delano
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Endion School In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Florence Town Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The End of the Line in Currie
The Milford Monument
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome to Hanska
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Endion Depot In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hanover Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Dotson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Moving Old Hibbing
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Church of the Holy Cross
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Franconia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Le Sueur Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Finding The Past In Swatara
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Green Lake Mounds
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Little Falls Depot
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Jordan Brewery Complex
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Old School In Wolverton
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Wasioja
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lost Highway 61
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Little Marais Inn
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
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
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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