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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wilder Public Baths
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Townhomes
The Saint Paul Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Settled in 1854 by Pennsylvania native Benjamin Spencer, Spencer Brook was one of the first...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
After one hundred and twenty years, the mystery of what happened to Clara Ober between the evening...
The Milford Monument
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Wasioja
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Dotson
The Le Sueur Theater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Little Marais Inn
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
District 6 School in New Sweden
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Oxford Mill Ruin
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome To Cobden
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lundring Service Station in Canby
State Theater In Hutchinson
Old Brewery In Preston
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The End of the Line in Currie
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Endion School In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Ruins of Sawyer School
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Franconia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hanover Bridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bend in the River Regional Park
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Ottawa
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Church of the Holy Cross
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Sandstone
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Almelund Creamery
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Jordan Brewery Complex
Moving Old Hibbing
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Florence Town Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
The Duluth Homestead Project
Enter Marlon Brando
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
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland 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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
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
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
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