When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
Twin Cities Area
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Robbinsdale Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Apartments
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Townhomes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Greater Minnesota
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Arthur Orr was a 286’ steel package freighter built by the Chicago Ship Building Company. She...
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Endion School In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Meyer School In St Augusta
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Visiting Golden Gate
Red Wing Iron Works
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Le Sueur Theater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bend in the River Regional Park
District 48 School Near Delano
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Almelund Creamery
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Lundring Service Station in Canby
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Cobden
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Franconia
Green Lake Mounds
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Milford Monument
Old Brewery In Preston
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hanover Bridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Florence Town Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Old School In Wolverton
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Ruins of Sawyer School
District 6 School in New Sweden
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lost Highway 61
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Wasioja
Hollywood Town Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Duluth Homestead Project
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn 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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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