Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
World-renowned author F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in an apartment on the second floor of this...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Townhomes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
Green Lake Mounds
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Moderne New Ulm Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Milford Monument
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Little Falls Depot
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome to Hanska
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hanover Bridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Finding The Past In Swatara
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Sandstone
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
State Theater In Hutchinson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Little Marais Inn
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Moving Old Hibbing
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Old School In Wolverton
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Almelund Creamery
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Enter Marlon Brando
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Red Wing Iron Works
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Dotson
Remembering Quadna Resort
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Ottawa
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
District 48 School Near Delano
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Cobden
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Le Sueur Theater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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