The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
Twin Cities Area
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Wilder Public Baths
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Greater Minnesota
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Vermont-native Almond A. White came to Minnesota after the Civil War and settled in Brainerd for a...
The Le Sueur Theater
The Le Sueur Theater on Main Street in Le Sueur, Minnesota, opened in 1884. The building was...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Almelund Creamery
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Florence Town Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Old School In Wolverton
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Green Lake Mounds
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Visiting Golden Gate
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Munger Terrace In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Finding The Past In Swatara
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Meyer School In St Augusta
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Oxford Mill Ruin
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Jordan Brewery Complex
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The End of the Line in Currie
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Milford Monument
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Franconia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Old Wadena
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lost Highway 61
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Wasioja
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Little Marais Inn
Moderne New Ulm Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hollywood Town Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Sandstone
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Little Falls Depot
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Cobden
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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