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
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg and his wife Dora were the owners of a jewelry store in downtown Minneapolis in the...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gates of Stonebridge
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wilder Public Baths
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Apartments
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Greater Minnesota
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Little Falls Depot
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Franconia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Ottawa
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Cobden
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hanover Bridge
The Little Marais Inn
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Jordan Brewery Complex
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Enter Marlon Brando
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lost Highway 61
Welcome to Hanska
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Meyer School In St Augusta
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Duluth Homestead Project
Visiting Golden Gate
The Almelund Creamery
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
District 48 School Near Delano
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Endion School In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Red Wing Iron Works
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Dotson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Milford Monument
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Exploring Sandstone
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Moving Old Hibbing
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bend in the River Regional Park
Oxford Mill Ruin
Florence Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Remembering Quadna Resort
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Wasioja
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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