Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Lowry Hotel opened in 1927 and was 12 floors of pure glamour. An addition was made in 1930 to...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Townhomes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wilder Public Baths
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Historic Wasioja
Wasioja, Minnesota, was a thriving community in the 1850s and 1860s. The village was settled in...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Green Lake Mounds
Visiting Golden Gate
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Old Wadena
Florence Town Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Lost Highway 61
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Milford Monument
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Red Wing Iron Works
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Enter Marlon Brando
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Church of the Holy Cross
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
District 48 School Near Delano
Hollywood Town Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Dotson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Cobden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Endion School In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Meyer School In St Augusta
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Franconia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Sandstone
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Old School In Wolverton
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome to Hanska
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Remembering Quadna Resort
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
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...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
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