This beauty was built in 1914 and is St Paul’s largest Prairie Style house at just under 3,000...
Twin Cities Area
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis was one of the rare mills in the city that had four finished...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Apartments
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gates of Stonebridge
District #28 School in Ramsey
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Greater Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two weeks after the James–Younger Gang raided Northfield the gang appeared at the farm of Ole...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Franconia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Enter Marlon Brando
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Moderne New Ulm Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Green Lake Mounds
Bend in the River Regional Park
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Brewery In Preston
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Finding The Past In Swatara
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Wasioja
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Visiting Golden Gate
Lost Highway 61
Endion School In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering Quadna Resort
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Duluth Homestead Project
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Old School In Wolverton
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Ottawa
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Cobden
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The End of the Line in Currie
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Sandstone
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Red Wing Iron Works
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Dotson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 48 School Near Delano
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of 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