As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
Twin Cities Area
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Minneapolis has many beautiful homes, but the Gale mansion is easily one of my top three. I love...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
District #28 School in Ramsey
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to one of the most awe-inspiring buildings in Minnesota. It’s big. It’s...
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Old Wadena
Green Lake Mounds
State Theater In Hutchinson
Little Falls Depot
Visiting Golden Gate
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome to Hanska
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hollywood Town Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Franconia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
District 48 School Near Delano
Endion Depot In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Milford Monument
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion School In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Ottawa
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The End of the Line in Currie
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Almelund Creamery
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Moving Old Hibbing
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Florence Town Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Le Sueur Theater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Old Brewery In Preston
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Meyer School In St Augusta
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Oxford Mill Ruin
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital 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 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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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