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
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
At the turn of the twentieth century, newspapers and magazines touted quack cures and healing cults...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Townhomes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wilder Public Baths
Greater Minnesota
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Minnesota Home School for Girls was established by the state legislature in 1907 as a...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Endion School In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Moving Old Hibbing
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Almelund Creamery
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Moderne New Ulm Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The New Ulm Company Service Station
District 48 School Near Delano
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Red Wing Iron Works
Ruins of Sawyer School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Dotson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Visiting Golden Gate
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Old School In Wolverton
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Endion Depot In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring Ottawa
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hanover Bridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Jordan Brewery Complex
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood Town Hall
Lost Highway 61
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Old Brewery In Preston
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
State Theater In Hutchinson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Enter Marlon Brando
Meyer School In St Augusta
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome to Hanska
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Florence Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Wasioja
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
The Duluth Homestead Project
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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