Built between 1902 and 1904, this beautiful building on its shady lot served southeast Minneapolis...
Twin Cities Area
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Apartments
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Robbinsdale Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wilder Public Baths
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Greater Minnesota
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
This gorgeous Second Empire style home in Hastings was built for William Thompson in 1880. Thompson...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hanover Bridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Moderne New Ulm Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Duluth Homestead Project
District 48 School Near Delano
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Moving Old Hibbing
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Sandstone
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Milford Monument
Remembering Quadna Resort
Finding The Past In Swatara
Endion School In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Florence Town Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Little Marais Inn
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Franconia
The End of the Line in Currie
Enter Marlon Brando
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Dotson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Old Brewery In Preston
Lost Highway 61
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Ottawa
Hollywood Town Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Visiting Golden Gate
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome to Hanska
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Green Lake Mounds
Ruins of Sawyer School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Old School In Wolverton
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Little Falls Depot
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Cobden
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Jordan Brewery Complex
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Le Sueur Theater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
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