The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was founded in January 1897. The church...
Twin Cities Area
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
On March 22, 1836, Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark married Lieutenant Horatio Phillips Van Cleve a few...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Robbinsdale Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wilder Public Baths
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Greater Minnesota
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
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...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moderne New Ulm Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome to Hanska
Oxford Mill Ruin
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Finding The Past In Swatara
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Almelund Creamery
Lost Highway 61
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
District 48 School Near Delano
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Milford Monument
Endion School In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bend in the River Regional Park
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Little Falls Depot
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Visiting Golden Gate
Hanover Bridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Florence Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Duluth Homestead Project
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Old Brewery In Preston
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Franconia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Wasioja
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood Town Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Green Lake Mounds
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Red Wing Iron Works
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Dotson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The End of the Line in Currie
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
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
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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