The Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis was one of the rare mills in the city that had four finished...
Twin Cities Area
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wilder Public Baths
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Townhomes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
District #28 School in Ramsey
Robbinsdale Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Finding The Past In Swatara
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hanover Bridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Little Marais Inn
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Le Sueur Theater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Little Falls Depot
Oxford Mill Ruin
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Cobden
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Endion Depot In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
District 6 School in New Sweden
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Wasioja
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Sandstone
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Milford Monument
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Florence Town Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
State Theater In Hutchinson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Green Lake Mounds
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lost Highway 61
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Endion School In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The End of the Line in Currie
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Moving Old Hibbing
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Old Brewery In Preston
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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