Built between 1902 and 1904, this beautiful building on its shady lot served southeast Minneapolis...
Twin Cities Area
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The McKnight’s Park Avenue mansion was completed in 1892 for a total cost of nearly $36,000...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wilder Public Baths
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Robbinsdale Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Eight Days in May Protests
Greater Minnesota
The Le Sueur Theater
The Le Sueur Theater on Main Street in Le Sueur, Minnesota, opened in 1884. The building was...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
In 1909, just eight years after this school was built in Sandstone, lightning struck. Sadly, the...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Green Lake Mounds
Endion Depot In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Dotson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Oxford Mill Ruin
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Old School In Wolverton
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Red Wing Iron Works
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Almelund Creamery
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lost Highway 61
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Milford Monument
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Franconia
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Visiting Golden Gate
The Little Marais Inn
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Enter Marlon Brando
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Little Falls Depot
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Florence Town Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hollywood Town Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Cobden
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hanover Bridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Ottawa
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Church of the Holy Cross
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Endion School In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
The End of the Line in Currie
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Sandstone
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Wasioja
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
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...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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