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
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Lowry Hotel opened in 1927 and was 12 floors of pure glamour. An addition was made in 1930 to...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Robbinsdale Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Apartments
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Greater Minnesota
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Settled in 1854 by Pennsylvania native Benjamin Spencer, Spencer Brook was one of the first...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Wasioja
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Almelund Creamery
Green Lake Mounds
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Old Wadena
Finding The Past In Swatara
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Dotson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Ottawa
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Visiting Golden Gate
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bend in the River Regional Park
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
District 6 School in New Sweden
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
The End of the Line in Currie
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Franconia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
State Theater In Hutchinson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Little Falls Depot
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Cobden
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Enter Marlon Brando
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Endion School In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Little Marais Inn
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Church of the Holy Cross
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lost Highway 61
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Sandstone
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Moving Old Hibbing
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
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