It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
Twin Cities Area
Wilder Public Baths
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Originally named the Palazzo, the Colonnade Hotel opened on St. Peter Street in Saint Paul in 1888...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Saint Paul Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Townhomes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Freemasons organized a lodge in Clearwater, Minnesota in 1858 that became known as Masonic...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Wasioja
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Endion Depot In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Endion School In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hanover Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bend in the River Regional Park
Finding The Past In Swatara
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lost Highway 61
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Little Marais Inn
The Le Sueur Theater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Sandstone
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Ottawa
The Almelund Creamery
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Moving Old Hibbing
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
District 48 School Near Delano
The Milford Monument
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Franconia
Florence Town Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome to Hanska
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Oxford Mill Ruin
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Enter Marlon Brando
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Old Brewery In Preston
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lincoln Branch Library 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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill 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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
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...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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