The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
Twin Cities Area
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Apartments
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Landmark Center In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Greater Minnesota
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Pine Tree Lumber Company was established in Little Falls in 1890. Located on the banks of the...
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
District 48 School Near Delano
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
District 6 School in New Sweden
Green Lake Mounds
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Wasioja
Visiting Golden Gate
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome to Hanska
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Old Wadena
Endion Depot In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Cobden
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Sandstone
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Red Wing Iron Works
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lost Highway 61
Little Falls Depot
The Milford Monument
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Little Marais Inn
Finding The Past In Swatara
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion School In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Church of the Holy Cross
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Moderne New Ulm Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Hollywood Town Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Le Sueur Theater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Hanover Bridge
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Old Brewery In Preston
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Almelund Creamery
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
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...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital 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