Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Edwin H Hewitt was one of Minnesota’s most widely-known architects of the 20th century. Born in Red...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Saint Paul Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Robbinsdale Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Apartments
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Bally Blacksmith Shop opened in 1911 when Sam Bally left his job at a sawmill to open his own...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Cobden
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Florence Town Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome to Hanska
The Le Sueur Theater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Franconia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Milford Monument
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Daniel Piper House in Medford
District 6 School in New Sweden
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Dotson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Green Lake Mounds
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Moderne New Ulm Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Jordan Brewery Complex
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Old School In Wolverton
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
District 48 School Near Delano
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Endion School In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The End of the Line in Currie
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Meyer School In St Augusta
Enter Marlon Brando
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Moving Old Hibbing
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Sandstone
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lost Highway 61
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Wasioja
Oxford Mill Ruin
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood Town Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Ottawa
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
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...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In 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