The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
Twin Cities Area
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Greater Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Harry A. Subilia was an Italian immigrant who opened the first distillery in New Ulm, Minnesota. He...
Welcome To Dotson
Lost Highway 61
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
State Theater In Hutchinson
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hanover Bridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Enter Marlon Brando
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Almelund Creamery
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Le Sueur Theater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
District 48 School Near Delano
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Finding The Past In Swatara
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hollywood Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Ottawa
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Florence Town Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Moving Old Hibbing
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bend in the River Regional Park
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion School In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Green Lake Mounds
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Old Wadena
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Milford Monument
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
The Duluth Homestead Project
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Franconia
Historic Wasioja
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Old Brewery In Preston
Little Falls Depot
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
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...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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