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
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Apartments
Wilder Public Baths
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Townhomes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Ottawa
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Le Sueur Theater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Sandstone
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Jordan Brewery Complex
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hanover Bridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Endion Depot In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bend in the River Regional Park
Finding The Past In Swatara
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Milford Monument
The Almelund Creamery
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The End of the Line in Currie
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome to Hanska
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
District 6 School in New Sweden
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Little Marais Inn
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Endion School In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Franconia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Cobden
District 48 School Near Delano
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hollywood Town Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Little Falls Depot
Lost Highway 61
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Wasioja
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Visiting Golden Gate
The Old School In Wolverton
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Ruins of Sawyer School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Remembering Quadna Resort
Moderne New Ulm Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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