Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wilder Public Baths
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Ruins of Sawyer School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Dotson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome to Hanska
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Enter Marlon Brando
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lost Highway 61
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Almelund Creamery
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The End of the Line in Currie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
District 6 School in New Sweden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Old Brewery In Preston
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Endion School In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Wasioja
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Hanover Bridge
The Little Marais Inn
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
Moderne New Ulm Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Oxford Mill Ruin
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bend in the River Regional Park
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Moving Old Hibbing
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Franconia
Exploring Sandstone
District 48 School Near Delano
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Ottawa
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Little Falls Depot
The New Ulm Company Service Station
State Theater In Hutchinson
Visiting Golden Gate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering Quadna Resort
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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