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
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
Greater Minnesota
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Have you ever wondered how Minnesota became known as the land of 10,000 lakes? Every Minnesotan...
The Le Sueur Theater
The Le Sueur Theater on Main Street in Le Sueur, Minnesota, opened in 1884. The building was...
Hollywood Town Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Almelund Creamery
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Visiting Golden Gate
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Oxford Mill Ruin
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Franconia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome to Hanska
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
District 6 School in New Sweden
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Little Marais Inn
Endion School In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Dotson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Moving Old Hibbing
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Milford Monument
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Old Brewery In Preston
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Red Wing Iron Works
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Jordan Brewery Complex
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Moderne New Ulm Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Cobden
Enter Marlon Brando
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
State Theater In Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Church of the Holy Cross
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Little Falls Depot
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Florence Town Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
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...
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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