Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Twin Cities Area
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of Food
Betty Crocker was born in a boardroom of The Washburn-Crosby Company of Minneapolis in 1921. A...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Apartments
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Townhomes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
In 1909, just eight years after this school was built in Sandstone, lightning struck. Sadly, the...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Florence Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Dotson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Little Falls Depot
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Old School In Wolverton
The Little Marais Inn
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Old Brewery In Preston
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Red Wing Iron Works
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Ottawa
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Duluth Homestead Project
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Le Sueur Theater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Wasioja
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion School In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Visiting Golden Gate
Finding The Past In Swatara
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome to Hanska
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Milford Monument
State Theater In Hutchinson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Green Lake Mounds
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lost Highway 61
District 48 School Near Delano
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bend in the River Regional Park
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Sandstone
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Franconia
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
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...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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