The house at 193 N Mackubin in Saint Paul, Minnesota, was built in 1882. This Second Empire-style...
Twin Cities Area
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
In 1899, the Twin City Rapid Transit Company extended its reach of their streetcars to the...
Wilder Public Baths
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Townhomes
District #28 School in Ramsey
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Robbinsdale Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Landmark Center In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Planning for a new road for stagecoach travel westward from the Mississippi began in the winter of...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome to Hanska
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hollywood Town Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Meyer School In St Augusta
District 48 School Near Delano
Ruins of Sawyer School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Old Wadena
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Le Sueur Theater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Milford Monument
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lost Highway 61
Finding The Past In Swatara
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Moving Old Hibbing
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Endion School In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Duluth Homestead Project
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Little Falls Depot
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Little Marais Inn
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Cobden
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Sandstone
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Brewery In Preston
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Oxford Mill Ruin
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
The End of the Line in Currie
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Wandering Around The Toimi School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Red Wing Iron Works
The Old School In Wolverton
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Florence Town Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hanover Bridge
Enter Marlon Brando
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Ottawa
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Dotson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
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
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City 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 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?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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