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...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wilder Public Baths
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
District #28 School in Ramsey
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Townhomes
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Greater Minnesota
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Arthur Orr was a 286’ steel package freighter built by the Chicago Ship Building Company. She...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The George and Charlotte Crosby house is located just a few blocks east of downtown Duluth...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Red Wing Iron Works
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Florence Town Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Cobden
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The End of the Line in Currie
The Le Sueur Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Duluth Homestead Project
Old Brewery In Preston
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Franconia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hollywood Town Hall
Green Lake Mounds
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Little Marais Inn
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Moving Old Hibbing
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
District 6 School in New Sweden
Endion Depot In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Dotson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lost Highway 61
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Endion School In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Milford Monument
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Wasioja
Jordan Brewery Complex
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hanover Bridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bend in the River Regional Park
Visiting Golden Gate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
District 48 School Near Delano
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Old Wadena
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
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...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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