Minneapolis has many beautiful homes, but the Gale mansion is easily one of my top three. I love...
Twin Cities Area
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Women’s City Club In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Apartments
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wilder Public Baths
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Robbinsdale Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Frederick E. Murphy was known as the publisher and guiding spirit of the Minneapolis Tribune...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hanover Bridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Jordan Brewery Complex
District 48 School Near Delano
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Cobden
The End of the Line in Currie
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Little Falls Depot
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Sandstone
Moving Old Hibbing
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Brewery In Preston
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Red Wing Iron Works
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Little Marais Inn
Lost Highway 61
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Franconia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Old School In Wolverton
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Milford Monument
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Taylor House In Le Sueur
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Wasioja
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Duluth Homestead Project
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Ottawa
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome to Hanska
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Enter Marlon Brando
Green Lake Mounds
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Endion School In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
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