This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
Twin Cities Area
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Eight Days in May Protests
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Apartments
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
In 1929, the Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge was established in Lanesboro, Minnesota. Membership...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Early settler and local banker Edson Smith built this French Second Empire style home for his...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lost Highway 61
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Ottawa
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hollywood Town Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Cobden
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Milford Monument
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
The Duluth Homestead Project
Green Lake Mounds
Ruins of Sawyer School
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Endion Depot In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Visiting Golden Gate
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Old Wadena
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Brewery In Preston
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The End of the Line in Currie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome to Hanska
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Le Sueur Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Little Falls Depot
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Remembering Quadna Resort
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Florence Town Hall
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Sandstone
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Moving Old Hibbing
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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