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
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Built in 1913, the Charles and Grace Parker House was designed by the nationally-prominent Prairie...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Greater Minnesota
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
At around 3:30 p.m. on February 5, 1924, the most devastating mining disaster in Minnesota history...
The Milford Monument
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Almelund Creamery
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Little Marais Inn
Endion Depot In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Dotson
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The End of the Line in Currie
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering Quadna Resort
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Red Wing Iron Works
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Church of the Holy Cross
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Florence Town Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Visiting Golden Gate
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hanover Bridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Oxford Mill Ruin
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Cobden
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Ottawa
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lost Highway 61
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Sandstone
Moving Old Hibbing
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Meyer School In St Augusta
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
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
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial 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