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
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Apartments
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rumors of copper riches hidden in the North Shore's streams and hillsides had excited the...
Lost Highway 61
Remembering Quadna Resort
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Jordan Brewery Complex
Old Brewery In Preston
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bend in the River Regional Park
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Oxford Mill Ruin
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Cobden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Little Falls Depot
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Franconia
The Almelund Creamery
The Milford Monument
The Church of the Holy Cross
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Dotson
The End of the Line in Currie
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Finding The Past In Swatara
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hanover Bridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
District 48 School Near Delano
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Green Lake Mounds
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Florence Town Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Endion Depot In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Enter Marlon Brando
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Wasioja
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Endion School In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome to Hanska
Red Wing Iron Works
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hollywood Town Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Visiting Golden Gate
The Le Sueur Theater
The Little Marais Inn
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
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