University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
Twin Cities Area
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Built between 1902 and 1904, this beautiful building on its shady lot served southeast Minneapolis...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wilder Public Baths
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Saint Paul Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Townhomes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Apartments
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Robbinsdale Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Freemasons organized a lodge in Clearwater, Minnesota in 1858 that became known as Masonic...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The George and Charlotte Crosby house is located just a few blocks east of downtown Duluth...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bend in the River Regional Park
Moving Old Hibbing
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion School In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Brewery In Preston
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Wasioja
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
District 48 School Near Delano
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Cobden
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Oxford Mill Ruin
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Little Falls Depot
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Old Wadena
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Dotson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Milford Monument
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
State Theater In Hutchinson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lost Highway 61
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome to Hanska
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Little Marais Inn
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood Town Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Green Lake Mounds
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hanover Bridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring Ottawa
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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