Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Twin Cities Area
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Townhomes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
In 1957, trucks loaded with prefabricated homes rolled along Highway 61 toward a new building site...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Moving Old Hibbing
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lincoln Park In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Sandstone
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Finding The Past In Swatara
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hanover Bridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Endion School In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Enter Marlon Brando
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
District 48 School Near Delano
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Visiting Golden Gate
Little Falls Depot
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Ottawa
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lost Highway 61
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Old School In Wolverton
Florence Town Hall
The Milford Monument
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Church of the Holy Cross
Green Lake Mounds
Jordan Brewery Complex
Old Brewery In Preston
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bend in the River Regional Park
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Almelund Creamery
The End of the Line in Currie
Red Wing Iron Works
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
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...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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
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
Old Brewery In Preston