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
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Landmark Center In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Robbinsdale Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Apartments
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wilder Public Baths
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Chisago County State Bank was built in Center City in 1915. In August 1925, more than 60...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lost Highway 61
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Milford Monument
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Sandstone
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Franconia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
State Theater In Hutchinson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Enter Marlon Brando
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Visiting Golden Gate
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Meyer School In St Augusta
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Almelund Creamery
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Little Marais Inn
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
District 48 School Near Delano
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Cobden
Remembering Quadna Resort
Endion School In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Oxford Mill Ruin
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
District 6 School in New Sweden
Moderne New Ulm Library
Red Wing Iron Works
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hanover Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Moving Old Hibbing
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Little Falls Depot
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Wasioja
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
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
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
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 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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

