Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Constructed in 1897 for $13,000, the First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was designed...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Robbinsdale Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Landmark Center In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
In 1929, the Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge was established in Lanesboro, Minnesota. Membership...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ness Congregation was originally organized as the Norwegian Evangelical St. Johannes...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Wasioja
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Old Wadena
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Le Sueur Theater
Finding The Past In Swatara
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Florence Town Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Cobden
District 6 School in New Sweden
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Sandstone
Little Falls Depot
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Meyer School In St Augusta
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Milford Monument
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Old School In Wolverton
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Ruins of Sawyer School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Duluth Homestead Project
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The End of the Line in Currie
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood Town Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Ottawa
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Old Brewery In Preston
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lost Highway 61
Endion School In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Enter Marlon Brando
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hanover Bridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Randall Cooperative Creamery
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Dotson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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