The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
Twin Cities Area
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
In 1899, the Twin City Rapid Transit Company extended its reach of their streetcars to the...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gates of Stonebridge
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Apartments
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Greater Minnesota
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Freemasons organized a lodge in Clearwater, Minnesota in 1858 that became known as Masonic...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Daniel Piper came to Minnesota from New Hampshire with his wife and daughter in early 1877...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring Sandstone
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The End of the Line in Currie
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Moving Old Hibbing
Old Brewery In Preston
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lost Highway 61
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Church of the Holy Cross
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Endion Depot In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Little Falls Depot
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
The Little Marais Inn
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Dotson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Almelund Creamery
Enter Marlon Brando
Visiting Golden Gate
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome to Hanska
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Wasioja
The Milford Monument
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Endion School In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Green Lake Mounds
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Le Sueur Theater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Franconia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Old Wadena
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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