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
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gates of Stonebridge
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Townhomes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Greater Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ness Congregation was originally organized as the Norwegian Evangelical St. Johannes...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Church of the Holy Cross
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Wasioja
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Florence Town Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Little Falls Depot
District 48 School Near Delano
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Old School In Wolverton
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Moving Old Hibbing
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
State Theater In Hutchinson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Little Marais Inn
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Cobden
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Sandstone
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Oxford Mill Ruin
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Old Wadena
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lost Highway 61
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Green Lake Mounds
Remembering Quadna Resort
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Franconia
Enter Marlon Brando
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Brewery In Preston
The Milford Monument
Endion Depot In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Dotson
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Duluth Homestead Project
Finding The Past In Swatara
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
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
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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