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
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Robbinsdale Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Saint Paul Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Apartments
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Memories are made at the lake. Whether you’re lucky enough to go every weekend in the summer...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Daniel Piper came to Minnesota from New Hampshire with his wife and daughter in early 1877...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
District 48 School Near Delano
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Le Sueur Theater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Dotson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Milford Monument
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Red Wing Iron Works
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Endion Depot In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The End of the Line in Currie
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Ruins of Sawyer School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Wasioja
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome to Hanska
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Ottawa
Hollywood Town Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hanover Bridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bend in the River Regional Park
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Florence Town Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Little Falls Depot
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Visiting Golden Gate
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Cobden
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lost Highway 61
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Sandstone
The Almelund Creamery
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion School In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Franconia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Remembering Quadna Resort
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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