The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
Twin Cities Area
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gates of Stonebridge
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Robbinsdale Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Apartments
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The charming town of Winona, Minnesota, once played host to an extraordinary tale in the world of...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Old School In Wolverton
The Le Sueur Theater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Moving Old Hibbing
Endion School In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lost Highway 61
Remembering Quadna Resort
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hollywood Town Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
The Little Marais Inn
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Franconia
The Milford Monument
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Old Brewery In Preston
Florence Town Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
State Theater In Hutchinson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Church of the Holy Cross
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Dotson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hanover Bridge
Welcome to Hanska
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion Depot In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Ottawa
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Wasioja
District 48 School Near Delano
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Sandstone
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Cobden
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Green Lake Mounds
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Red Wing Iron Works
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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