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
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The McKnight’s Park Avenue mansion was completed in 1892 for a total cost of nearly $36,000...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Robbinsdale Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Eight Days in May Protests
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Apartments
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Saint Paul Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Greater Minnesota
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
By the end of the 19th century, dairy was quickly out-pacing wheat as the top agricultural...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Church of the Holy Cross
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
The End of the Line in Currie
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Little Marais Inn
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion Depot In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Old School In Wolverton
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Ottawa
Lost Highway 61
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Moderne New Ulm Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Incline Railway
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Visiting Golden Gate
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Milford Monument
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Meyer School In St Augusta
Red Wing Iron Works
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Old Wadena
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Little Falls Depot
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Almelund Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Sandstone
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Enter Marlon Brando
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Randall Cooperative Creamery
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
State Theater In Hutchinson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Hollywood Town Hall
Florence Town Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Dotson
Endion School In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hanover Bridge
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
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...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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