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
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
In 1899, the Twin City Rapid Transit Company extended its reach of their streetcars to the...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
District #28 School in Ramsey
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Apartments
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Robbinsdale Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Greater Minnesota
Hollywood Town Hall
The Carver County District Number 76 School was built in 1906 and opened for classes in the fall of...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Little Falls Depot
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The End of the Line in Currie
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Cobden
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Franconia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Moving Old Hibbing
Bend in the River Regional Park
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Visiting Golden Gate
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Ruins of Sawyer School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
District 48 School Near Delano
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Moderne New Ulm Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Sandstone
Endion Depot In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Milford Monument
Hanover Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Florence Town Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Duluth Homestead Project
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Old Wadena
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Old School In Wolverton
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Ottawa
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Little Marais Inn
Old Brewery In Preston
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Almelund Creamery
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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