University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
Twin Cities Area
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Robbinsdale Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Apartments
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Townhomes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
This old stone chapel was built at the Sunrise Funeral Home and Cemetery in 1949. Located in...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Sandstone
Moving Old Hibbing
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
District 6 School in New Sweden
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Franconia
Red Wing Iron Works
Lost Highway 61
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Little Marais Inn
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Church of the Holy Cross
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Old School In Wolverton
Little Falls Depot
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Le Sueur Theater
Endion School In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood Town Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Visiting Golden Gate
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Florence Town Hall
Hanover Bridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome to Hanska
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
District 48 School Near Delano
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Oxford Mill Ruin
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Old Wadena
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Green Lake Mounds
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Milford Monument
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Cobden
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Wasioja
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
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