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
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wilder Public Baths
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The End of the Line in Currie
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Dotson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Red Wing Iron Works
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Milford Monument
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Visiting Golden Gate
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Franconia
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome to Hanska
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hanover Bridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Wasioja
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lundring Service Station in Canby
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Le Sueur Theater
Lost Highway 61
The Duluth Homestead Project
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Old School In Wolverton
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Green Lake Mounds
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Oxford Mill Ruin
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Sandstone
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Old Brewery In Preston
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Cobden
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Little Falls Depot
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Florence Town Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering Quadna Resort
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
District 6 School in New Sweden
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Jordan Brewery Complex
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Finding The Past In Swatara
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...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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