Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Wilder Public Baths
Women’s City Club In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Townhomes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Several buildings were constructed on 30 acres of lakefront property in Two Harbors in the 1920s to...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Florence Town Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
District 6 School in New Sweden
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hanover Bridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Green Lake Mounds
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Little Marais Inn
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Sandstone
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Visiting Golden Gate
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Old Brewery In Preston
The Milford Monument
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bend in the River Regional Park
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Finding The Past In Swatara
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Red Wing Iron Works
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Ottawa
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jordan Brewery Complex
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Dotson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Franconia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Little Falls Depot
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Wasioja
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Cobden
Lost Highway 61
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome to Hanska
Taylor House In Le Sueur
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood Town Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
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