Names like Louis Comfort Tiffany and Gustav Stickley are well rooted in many American’s minds as...
Twin Cities Area
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Townhomes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Robbinsdale Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Apartments
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gates of Stonebridge
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wilder Public Baths
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
Jordan Brewery Complex
During the 1860s, Jordan had become an early industrial center in Scott County and brewing became...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Dotson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Wasioja
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Duluth Homestead Project
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Little Marais Inn
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Florence Town Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Moving Old Hibbing
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Sandstone
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Cobden
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Almelund Creamery
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Moderne New Ulm Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Finding The Past In Swatara
District 48 School Near Delano
Randall Cooperative Creamery
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Remembering Quadna Resort
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Ottawa
The Milford Monument
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lost Highway 61
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Franconia
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Endion School In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Red Wing Iron Works
Old Brewery In Preston
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Meyer School In St Augusta
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Oxford Mill Ruin
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
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
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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