Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School opened in Minneapolis in 1932. The school was named after Mary...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gates of Stonebridge
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Robbinsdale Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Wilder Public Baths
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
This old stone chapel was built at the Sunrise Funeral Home and Cemetery in 1949. Located in...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The End of the Line in Currie
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lost Highway 61
District 6 School in New Sweden
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Endion School In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome to Hanska
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Milford Monument
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Jordan Brewery Complex
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Sandstone
Moving Old Hibbing
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Green Lake Mounds
Enter Marlon Brando
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hollywood Town Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Almelund Creamery
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hanover Bridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Le Sueur Theater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Ottawa
Old Brewery In Preston
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Wasioja
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Old School In Wolverton
District 48 School Near Delano
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Franconia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial 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