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
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Townhomes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Greater Minnesota
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
After 120 years, the mystery of what happened to Clara Ober between the evening of July 29th, 1895...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hanover Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Ottawa
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Finding The Past In Swatara
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Enter Marlon Brando
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Old Brewery In Preston
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Almelund Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Sandstone
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome to Hanska
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Lost Highway 61
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bend in the River Regional Park
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Endion School In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Green Lake Mounds
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Old School In Wolverton
Hollywood Town Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Little Falls Depot
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The End of the Line in Currie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Visiting Golden Gate
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Cobden
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
The Milford Monument
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Moving Old Hibbing
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Florence Town Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Dotson
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
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 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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
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...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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