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 Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Townhomes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Apartments
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wilder Public Baths
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Landmark Center In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Originally built as the second home of the First Swedish Baptist Church in 1910, the Temple Baptist...
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Oxford Mill was located on the bank of the Little Cannon River near Cannon Falls. When the mill...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood Town Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Endion School In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Moving Old Hibbing
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Florence Town Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Visiting Golden Gate
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Ottawa
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Little Marais Inn
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Dotson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Franconia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Milford Monument
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Le Sueur Theater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Remembering Quadna Resort
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The End of the Line in Currie
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Church of the Holy Cross
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Red Wing Iron Works
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome to Hanska
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hanover Bridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Wasioja
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Endion Depot In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City 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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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