The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Twin Cities Area
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Saint Paul Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wilder Public Baths
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Apartments
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lost Highway 61
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Hollywood Town Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion School In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Sandstone
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome to Hanska
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Wasioja
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The End of the Line in Currie
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Enter Marlon Brando
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Little Marais Inn
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hanover Bridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering Quadna Resort
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Old Brewery In Preston
Endion Depot In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Dotson
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Church of the Holy Cross
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Ottawa
Visiting Golden Gate
Green Lake Mounds
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Milford Monument
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Moving Old Hibbing
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
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