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
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
This beauty was built in 1914 and is St Paul’s largest Prairie Style house at just under 3,000...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Robbinsdale Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Greater Minnesota
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Vermont-native Almond A. White came to Minnesota after the Civil War and settled in Brainerd for a...
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
District 48 School Near Delano
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Little Marais Inn
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Meyer School In St Augusta
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Old School In Wolverton
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The End of the Line in Currie
Green Lake Mounds
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Endion Depot In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Cobden
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring Sandstone
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Old Wadena
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Le Sueur Theater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Enter Marlon Brando
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Franconia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Milford Monument
Florence Town Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Ottawa
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Church of the Holy Cross
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Little Falls Depot
Historic Wasioja
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bend in the River Regional Park
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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