Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Twin Cities Area
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Townhomes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Landmark Center In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Cobden
Cobden, Minnesota, was incorporated in 1905. The little railroad town included a bank, creamery...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Memories are made at the lake. Whether you’re lucky enough to go every weekend in the summer...
Ruins of Sawyer School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Sandstone
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Moderne New Ulm Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Little Marais Inn
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The End of the Line in Currie
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Meyer School In St Augusta
Green Lake Mounds
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Florence Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Enter Marlon Brando
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Ottawa
Endion Depot In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lost Highway 61
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Old Wadena
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
State Theater In Hutchinson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Historic Franconia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Visiting Golden Gate
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Almelund Creamery
The Church of the Holy Cross
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood Town Hall
Endion School In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Red Wing Iron Works
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Oxford Mill Ruin
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Milford Monument
The Le Sueur Theater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Dotson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Old School In Wolverton
Remembering Quadna Resort
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hanover Bridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
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...
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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