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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Robbinsdale Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
By the end of the 19th century, dairy was quickly out-pacing wheat as the top agricultural...
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Endion School In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Little Falls Depot
Historic Wasioja
Bend in the River Regional Park
District 6 School in New Sweden
Moderne New Ulm Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Oxford Mill Ruin
Florence Town Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Moving Old Hibbing
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
State Theater In Hutchinson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering Quadna Resort
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Visiting Golden Gate
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Meyer School In St Augusta
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Enter Marlon Brando
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Old Wadena
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Cobden
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hanover Bridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The End of the Line in Currie
District 48 School Near Delano
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Church of the Holy Cross
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lost Highway 61
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Ruins of Sawyer School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hollywood Town Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Le Sueur Theater
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome to Hanska
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Franconia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring Ottawa
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Milford Monument
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Green Lake Mounds
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

