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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Robbinsdale Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Eight Days in May Protests
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Landmark Center In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Saint Paul Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
District #28 School in Ramsey
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Greater Minnesota
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
This old stone chapel was built at the Sunrise Funeral Home and Cemetery in 1949. Located in...
Welcome to Hanska
Hanska was supposed to be a quick stop on my way from Mankato to Sleepy Eye. I planned to get a few...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The End of the Line in Currie
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moving Old Hibbing
Bend in the River Regional Park
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Moderne New Ulm Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Enter Marlon Brando
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Cobden
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Visiting Golden Gate
Little Falls Depot
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Little Marais Inn
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Duluth Homestead Project
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Dotson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Almelund Creamery
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lost Highway 61
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Endion Depot In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Sandstone
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Jordan Brewery Complex
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Hollywood Town Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
District 48 School Near Delano
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Franconia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Milford Monument
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Ottawa
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Florence Town Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Green Lake Mounds
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Red Wing Iron Works
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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