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