The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Twin Cities Area
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of Food
Betty Crocker was born in a boardroom of The Washburn-Crosby Company of Minneapolis in 1921. A...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Robbinsdale Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Greater Minnesota
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Around the turn of the twentieth century, Nicollet County had eight rural crossroads hamlets. While...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Wasioja
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Enter Marlon Brando
The Le Sueur Theater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Old Brewery In Preston
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Jordan Brewery Complex
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Duluth Homestead Project
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Ottawa
District 6 School in New Sweden
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Sandstone
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The End of the Line in Currie
Finding The Past In Swatara
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Little Marais Inn
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Little Falls Depot
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Visiting Golden Gate
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
The Milford Monument
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hanover Bridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Endion School In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Cobden
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hollywood Town Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
District 48 School Near Delano
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome to Hanska
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Red Wing Iron Works
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Florence Town Hall
Historic Franconia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Moderne New Ulm Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Remembering Quadna Resort
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

