The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Twin Cities Area
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Eight Days in May Protests
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Greater Minnesota
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Bally Blacksmith Shop opened in 1911 when Sam Bally left his job at a sawmill to open his own...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
In 1909, just eight years after this school was built in Sandstone, lightning struck. Sadly, the...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Franconia
Moderne New Ulm Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Dotson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Red Wing Iron Works
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Little Marais Inn
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Cobden
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lost Highway 61
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Finding The Past In Swatara
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hanover Bridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Ottawa
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Visiting Golden Gate
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
District 48 School Near Delano
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Almelund Creamery
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
State Theater In Hutchinson
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Moving Old Hibbing
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Milford Monument
Exploring Sandstone
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The End of the Line in Currie
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Green Lake Mounds
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hollywood Town Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Enter Marlon Brando
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bend in the River Regional Park
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
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...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia 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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
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