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
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
The Swinford Apartments
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wilder Public Baths
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s Town
When Samuel Pandolfo arrived in St. Cloud in 1917, he dreamed of building an automobile empire that...
Exploring Sandstone
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Ottawa
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Bend in the River Regional Park
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Moving Old Hibbing
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lundring Service Station in Canby
District 48 School Near Delano
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Cobden
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
State Theater In Hutchinson
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Almelund Creamery
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Green Lake Mounds
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Remembering Quadna Resort
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome to Hanska
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hanover Bridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Little Falls Depot
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Little Marais Inn
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
District 6 School in New Sweden
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Florence Town Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Finding The Past In Swatara
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Franconia
The Milford Monument
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
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...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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