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
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Today, The Blaisdell is a wedding and event venue with cozy places to gather with your nearest and...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wilder Public Baths
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Robbinsdale Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
District #28 School in Ramsey
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Women’s City Club In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome to Hanska
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lost Highway 61
The Little Marais Inn
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Little Falls Depot
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
District 48 School Near Delano
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Ottawa
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The End of the Line in Currie
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
District 6 School in New Sweden
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hollywood Town Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Milford Monument
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Duluth Homestead Project
Endion School In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Dotson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Moderne New Ulm Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Florence Town Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Jordan Brewery Complex
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Red Wing Iron Works
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Endion Depot In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Cobden
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Sandstone
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

