Harry F. Legg and his wife Dora were the owners of a jewelry store in downtown Minneapolis in the...
Twin Cities Area
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Apartments
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
District 6 School in New Sweden
The District 6 school in New Sweden Township stands in a field surrounded by tall stalks of corn in...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swatara, Minnesota, started out as a logging town when several logging companies moved into the...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Meyer School In St Augusta
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Red Wing Iron Works
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Old School In Wolverton
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Florence Town Hall
Historic Wasioja
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring Sandstone
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Remembering Quadna Resort
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Old Brewery In Preston
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hanover Bridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Moving Old Hibbing
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Little Marais Inn
The New Ulm Company Service Station
District 48 School Near Delano
Enter Marlon Brando
Ruins of Sawyer School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Green Lake Mounds
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The End of the Line in Currie
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome to Hanska
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lost Highway 61
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome To Old Wadena
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Franconia
The Le Sueur Theater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Little Falls Depot
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Endion School In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
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 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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
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...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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