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
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
District #28 School in Ramsey
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Apartments
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Eight Days in May Protests
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Robbinsdale Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wilder Public Baths
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Greater Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The childhood home of children’s book author and illustrator Wanda Gag was built in New Ulm...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Moderne New Ulm Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Florence Town Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hanover Bridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Oxford Mill Ruin
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Meyer School In St Augusta
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
The Little Marais Inn
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Wasioja
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Enter Marlon Brando
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Church of the Holy Cross
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bend in the River Regional Park
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Little Falls Depot
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Sandstone
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Milford Monument
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Old Brewery In Preston
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Green Lake Mounds
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Endion Depot In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Cobden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome to Hanska
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Old School In Wolverton
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
State Theater In Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Le Sueur Theater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Moving Old Hibbing
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lost Highway 61
Endion School In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Almelund Creamery
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
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...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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