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
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Robbinsdale Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wilder Public Baths
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
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...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
For several years, Tenney held the distinction of being Minnesota’s smallest town. The 2010 census...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lost Highway 61
State Theater In Hutchinson
Green Lake Mounds
Bend in the River Regional Park
Oxford Mill Ruin
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Milford Monument
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Little Falls Depot
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
District 48 School Near Delano
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Old Brewery In Preston
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Almelund Creamery
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Cobden
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Moving Old Hibbing
Hanover Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The New Ulm Company Service Station
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Visiting Golden Gate
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Old Wadena
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Endion School In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Red Wing Iron Works
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Duluth Homestead Project
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Endion Depot In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Little Marais Inn
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Old School In Wolverton
Hollywood Town Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to Hanska
Remembering Quadna Resort
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Church of the Holy Cross
Moderne New Ulm Library
The End of the Line in Currie
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Franconia
Florence Town Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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