The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
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Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George H. Christian was a manager at the Washburn-Crosby Company in Minneapolis who worked out a...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Saint Paul Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Apartments
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Townhomes
Landmark Center In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gates of Stonebridge
Robbinsdale Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Beaver Bay is the oldest white settlement along the North Shore of Lake Superior. It was...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lost Highway 61
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Endion School In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Old Brewery In Preston
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Wasioja
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Green Lake Mounds
Red Wing Iron Works
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Moving Old Hibbing
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hanover Bridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Old Wadena
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
State Theater In Hutchinson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Ruins of Sawyer School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Visiting Golden Gate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
District 6 School in New Sweden
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bend in the River Regional Park
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Remembering Quadna Resort
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome to Hanska
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The End of the Line in Currie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Cobden
Finding The Past In Swatara
Moderne New Ulm Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Oxford Mill Ruin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
District 48 School Near Delano
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Little Falls Depot
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Little Marais Inn
Florence Town Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Church of the Holy Cross
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
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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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
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Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
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Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
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