If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
Twin Cities Area
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Eight Days in May Protests
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wilder Public Baths
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Apartments
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Robbinsdale Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Landmark Center In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Endion Depot in Duluth, Minnesota, was moved to Canal Park in 1986 to make way for the...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Franconia
Hanover Bridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Le Sueur Theater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Little Marais Inn
Old Brewery In Preston
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Almelund Creamery
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Wasioja
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Old School In Wolverton
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Visiting Golden Gate
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lost Highway 61
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
District 6 School in New Sweden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Moving Old Hibbing
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Sandstone
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The End of the Line in Currie
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Endion School In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Old Wadena
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Daniel Piper House in Medford
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hollywood Town Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome to Hanska
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Meyer School In St Augusta
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Milford Monument
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Red Wing Iron Works
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Green Lake Mounds
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
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...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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