Constructed in 1897 for $13,000, the First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was designed...
Twin Cities Area
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wilder Public Baths
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Built in 1926, the New Ulm Company Service Station is the best remaining example in a series of...
The Little Marais Inn
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Church of the Holy Cross
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
District 6 School in New Sweden
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Old Brewery In Preston
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Dotson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome to Hanska
The Duluth Homestead Project
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Milford Monument
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Cobden
Little Falls Depot
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Franconia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Wasioja
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Old School In Wolverton
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Florence Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Green Lake Mounds
The Almelund Creamery
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Moving Old Hibbing
The End of the Line in Currie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Endion Depot In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Ottawa
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Enter Marlon Brando
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Munger Terrace In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lost Highway 61
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Endion School In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Red Wing Iron Works
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
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...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
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 First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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