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
The Gates of Stonebridge
In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Townhomes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Apartments
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Robbinsdale Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Landmark Center In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
When I arrived at the Quadna Resort, I felt like I’d stepped back in time. Although the lodge...
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
District 48 School Near Delano
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Old Wadena
Moderne New Ulm Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lost Highway 61
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
State Theater In Hutchinson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Le Sueur Theater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Old School In Wolverton
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Moving Old Hibbing
Bend in the River Regional Park
Oxford Mill Ruin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Wasioja
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Finding The Past In Swatara
Enter Marlon Brando
Ruins of Sawyer School
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Green Lake Mounds
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Franconia
Endion Depot In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome to Hanska
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hollywood Town Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Milford Monument
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Cobden
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Florence Town Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The End of the Line in Currie
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Little Marais Inn
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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