Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wilder Public Baths
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Robbinsdale Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Greater Minnesota
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two weeks after the James–Younger Gang raided Northfield the gang appeared at the farm of Ole...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
September 24, 1909 At 4:20 a.m., an off-duty worker at the Fergus Falls City Light Station woke up...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Le Sueur Theater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Oxford Mill Ruin
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Old Wadena
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome to Hanska
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Church of the Holy Cross
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Franconia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lost Highway 61
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Remembering Quadna Resort
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Sandstone
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Cobden
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lundring Service Station in Canby
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Green Lake Mounds
Little Falls Depot
Finding The Past In Swatara
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hollywood Town Hall
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bend in the River Regional Park
Old Brewery In Preston
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Dotson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion Depot In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
District 48 School Near Delano
Visiting Golden Gate
Enter Marlon Brando
Florence Town Hall
Hanover Bridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Little Marais Inn
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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