Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Twin Cities Area
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Eight Days in May Protests
Women’s City Club In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Robbinsdale Library
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wilder Public Baths
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Townhomes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Greater Minnesota
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Chisago County State Bank was built in Center City in 1915. In August 1925, more than 60...
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Endion Depot in Duluth, Minnesota, was moved to Canal Park in 1986 to make way for the...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Little Falls Depot
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Visiting Golden Gate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Florence Town Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lost Highway 61
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
District 48 School Near Delano
Old Brewery In Preston
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Milford Monument
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome to Hanska
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Finding The Past In Swatara
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Cobden
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Ottawa
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Jordan Brewery Complex
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Enter Marlon Brando
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Dotson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Franconia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Meyer School In St Augusta
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Duluth Homestead Project
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hanover Bridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Little Marais Inn
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hollywood Town Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Sandstone
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Wasioja
Red Wing Iron Works
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Green Lake Mounds
Moving Old Hibbing
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

