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
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg and his wife Dora were the owners of a jewelry store in downtown Minneapolis in the...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wilder Public Baths
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Apartments
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Visiting Golden Gate
A post office was first established in Golden Gate, Minnesota, in 1868. The little town sprang up...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rumors of copper riches hidden in the North Shore's streams and hillsides had excited the...
Jordan Brewery Complex
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Endion Depot In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Milford Monument
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Incline Railway
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Sandstone
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Little Falls Depot
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Wasioja
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Meyer School In St Augusta
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Moving Old Hibbing
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Franconia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome to Hanska
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Moderne New Ulm Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Little Marais Inn
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Cobden
Hollywood Town Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Le Sueur Theater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Old School In Wolverton
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
District 48 School Near Delano
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Old Wadena
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Ruins of Sawyer School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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