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
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Townhomes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Saint Paul Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Greater Minnesota
Lost Highway 61
History buffs and curiosity seekers revel in finding a piece of the past. Stumbling across...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Early settler and local banker Edson Smith built this French Second Empire style home for his...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Green Lake Mounds
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Dotson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Florence Town Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Old School In Wolverton
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Old Wadena
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Little Marais Inn
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Franconia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hanover Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Little Falls Depot
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Cobden
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome to Hanska
Enter Marlon Brando
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Meyer School In St Augusta
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Old Brewery In Preston
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Wasioja
Moving Old Hibbing
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Milford Monument
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Almelund Creamery
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Endion School In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
State Theater In Hutchinson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Ottawa
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown