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
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Apartments
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Townhomes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
November 27, 1905, was a typical Monday morning for the crew of the flat-bottomed scow, George...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Old School In Wolverton
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hanover Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Dotson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Franconia
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Jordan Brewery Complex
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
State Theater In Hutchinson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Cobden
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Moving Old Hibbing
Finding The Past In Swatara
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Little Falls Depot
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Visiting Golden Gate
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Endion School In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Ottawa
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The End of the Line in Currie
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Florence Town Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Old Brewery In Preston
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Wasioja
Meyer School In St Augusta
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hollywood Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Milford Monument
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Moderne New Ulm Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Le Sueur Theater
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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