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 Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wilder Public Baths
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Robbinsdale Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Eight Days in May Protests
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Minnesota Home School for Girls was established by the state legislature in 1907 as a...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Green Lake Mounds
The Duluth Homestead Project
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Enter Marlon Brando
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Ottawa
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Finding The Past In Swatara
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bend in the River Regional Park
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Franconia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Visiting Golden Gate
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Endion School In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Taylor House In Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Le Sueur Theater
The Milford Monument
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Wasioja
Florence Town Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Jordan Brewery Complex
Ruins of Sawyer School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Little Falls Depot
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Church of the Holy Cross
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Hollywood Town Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Cobden
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Sandstone
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Old Brewery In Preston
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Almelund Creamery
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Little Marais Inn
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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