University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
Twin Cities Area
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Apartments
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Minnesota Home School for Girls was established by the state legislature in 1907 as a...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
Historic Wasioja
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Old Wadena
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hollywood Town Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Sandstone
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Little Marais Inn
Lost Highway 61
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Enter Marlon Brando
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The End of the Line in Currie
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
District 48 School Near Delano
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Ruins of Sawyer School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Remembering Quadna Resort
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Ottawa
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Dotson
Florence Town Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Red Wing Iron Works
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Visiting Golden Gate
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Old Brewery In Preston
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hanover Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Endion School In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Church of the Holy Cross
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Cobden
Meyer School In St Augusta
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Moving Old Hibbing
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Milford Monument
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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