Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
For many at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus, May 9, 1972 started out like any other...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Townhomes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wilder Public Baths
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Greater Minnesota
Visiting Golden Gate
A post office was first established in Golden Gate, Minnesota, in 1868. The little town sprang up...
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hanover Bridge
Historic Franconia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Endion Depot In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Enter Marlon Brando
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moderne New Ulm Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Little Falls Depot
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The End of the Line in Currie
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Milford Monument
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Florence Town Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Finding The Past In Swatara
District 6 School in New Sweden
Ruins of Sawyer School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
District 48 School Near Delano
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Cobden
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Almelund Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Red Wing Iron Works
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Ottawa
Lost Highway 61
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Endion School In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Church of the Holy Cross
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Remembering Quadna Resort
Green Lake Mounds
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Wasioja
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Old Brewery In Preston
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Le Sueur Theater
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Sandstone
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown