Built in 1913, the Charles and Grace Parker House was designed by the nationally-prominent Prairie...
Twin Cities Area
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Built between 1902 and 1904, this beautiful building on its shady lot served southeast Minneapolis...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Robbinsdale Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to one of the most awe-inspiring buildings in Minnesota. It’s big. It’s...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hanover Bridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Red Wing Iron Works
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The End of the Line in Currie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Wasioja
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Milford Monument
Remembering Quadna Resort
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bend in the River Regional Park
Endion School In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome to Hanska
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Enter Marlon Brando
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Franconia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Almelund Creamery
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
The Church of the Holy Cross
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Moderne New Ulm Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lost Highway 61
District 6 School in New Sweden
Moving Old Hibbing
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Dotson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Visiting Golden Gate
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
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...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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