Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Lowry Hotel opened in 1927 and was 12 floors of pure glamour. An addition was made in 1930 to...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Apartments
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Townhomes
Wilder Public Baths
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gates of Stonebridge
Robbinsdale Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Greater Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
When I arrived at the Quadna Resort, I felt like I’d stepped back in time. Although the lodge...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Most of us wouldn’t consider a 13,000 square foot mansion situated on a six-acre wooded lot with...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Enter Marlon Brando
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Endion School In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lost Highway 61
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Hanover Bridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Le Sueur Theater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Jordan Brewery Complex
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Ottawa
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
District 6 School in New Sweden
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
District 48 School Near Delano
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Little Falls Depot
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Old School In Wolverton
Moving Old Hibbing
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Almelund Creamery
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Cobden
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Green Lake Mounds
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome to Hanska
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Finding The Past In Swatara
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Moderne New Ulm Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Red Wing Iron Works
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Old Brewery In Preston
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Hollywood Town Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Dotson
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
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...
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...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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