Miller Vocational High School opened in Minneapolis in 1932. The school was named after Mary...
Twin Cities Area
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
At the turn of the twentieth century, newspapers and magazines touted quack cures and healing cults...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Apartments
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Greater Minnesota
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two weeks after the James–Younger Gang raided Northfield the gang appeared at the farm of Ole...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Lincoln Branch of the Duluth Public Library opened in 1917 thanks to $30,000 from Andrew...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Franconia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Milford Monument
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
District 48 School Near Delano
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Ottawa
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Little Marais Inn
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lost Highway 61
Little Falls Depot
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Red Wing Iron Works
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Duluth Homestead Project
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Old Wadena
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The End of the Line in Currie
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Sandstone
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hanover Bridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Old School In Wolverton
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Florence Town Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome to Hanska
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hollywood Town Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Moving Old Hibbing
Taylor House In Le Sueur
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
State Theater In Hutchinson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Church of the Holy Cross
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
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