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
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little was a partner in a Minneapolis-based real estate firm. He didn’t leave behind much...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Saint Paul Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gates of Stonebridge
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Apartments
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Ok, stick with me here. Can you remember how your elementary school smelled? I can. Vividly. A hint...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Dotson
Red Wing Iron Works
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hanover Bridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Little Falls Depot
Lost Highway 61
The Almelund Creamery
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Cobden
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Ruins of Sawyer School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Little Marais Inn
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Moderne New Ulm Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Munger Terrace In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Enter Marlon Brando
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
District 6 School in New Sweden
Remembering Quadna Resort
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Visiting Golden Gate
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Le Sueur Theater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Old School In Wolverton
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Oxford Mill Ruin
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
District 48 School Near Delano
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Green Lake Mounds
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Endion School In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Milford Monument
Historic Franconia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome to Hanska
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Sandstone
Florence Town Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
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
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
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...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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