Harry F. Legg and his wife Dora were the owners of a jewelry store in downtown Minneapolis in the...
Twin Cities Area
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Apartments
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wilder Public Baths
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Townhomes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swatara, Minnesota, started out as a logging town when several logging companies moved into the...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Remembering Quadna Resort
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Milford Monument
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Moving Old Hibbing
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Visiting Golden Gate
Bend in the River Regional Park
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
District 48 School Near Delano
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Old School In Wolverton
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Ottawa
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Almelund Creamery
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The End of the Line in Currie
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Ruins of Sawyer School
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Duluth Homestead Project
Endion Depot In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Enter Marlon Brando
The Little Marais Inn
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Sandstone
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Red Wing Iron Works
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Little Falls Depot
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Le Sueur Theater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moderne New Ulm Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome to Hanska
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Wasioja
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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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