Minneapolis has many beautiful homes, but the Gale mansion is easily one of my top three. I love...
Twin Cities Area
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
In 1899, the Twin City Rapid Transit Company extended its reach of their streetcars to the...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wilder Public Baths
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Robbinsdale Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Saint Paul Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Le Sueur Theater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Green Lake Mounds
Oxford Mill Ruin
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Meyer School In St Augusta
Old Brewery In Preston
The New Ulm Company Service Station
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Sandstone
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Wasioja
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bend in the River Regional Park
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Franconia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Florence Town Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hollywood Town Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lost Highway 61
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Old School In Wolverton
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Little Falls Depot
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Dotson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Little Marais Inn
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Ruins of Sawyer School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Endion School In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome to Hanska
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Duluth Homestead Project
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Enter Marlon Brando
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Ottawa
Visiting Golden Gate
Munger Terrace In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Jordan Brewery Complex
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate 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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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