The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
Twin Cities Area
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Robbinsdale Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Townhomes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Greater Minnesota
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Planning for a new road for stagecoach travel westward from the Mississippi began in the winter of...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Old School In Wolverton
The End of the Line in Currie
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The New Ulm Company Service Station
District 48 School Near Delano
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Dotson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Old Wadena
State Theater In Hutchinson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Ruins of Sawyer School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hanover Bridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Green Lake Mounds
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Jordan Brewery Complex
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Finding The Past In Swatara
Old Brewery In Preston
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Church of the Holy Cross
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Almelund Creamery
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Endion School In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Oxford Mill Ruin
Florence Town Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Meyer School In St Augusta
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Ottawa
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Wasioja
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Milford Monument
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Red Wing Iron Works
Lost Highway 61
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
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...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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