When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
Twin Cities Area
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
The Swinford Apartments
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Adolph Biermann house in Rochester is the oldest documented structure in the Mayowood Historic...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
In 1909, just eight years after this school was built in Sandstone, lightning struck. Sadly, the...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
District 48 School Near Delano
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Milford Monument
Red Wing Iron Works
Lost Highway 61
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Sandstone
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Visiting Golden Gate
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
State Theater In Hutchinson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The End of the Line in Currie
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Enter Marlon Brando
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome to Hanska
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Wasioja
Little Falls Depot
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Little Marais Inn
Moving Old Hibbing
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Remembering Quadna Resort
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Almelund Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Dotson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Meyer School In St Augusta
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Endion School In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Old Brewery In Preston
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Old Brewery In Preston