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
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The first branch library in the Minneapolis Public Library system was built in 1893-1894 and is one...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wilder Public Baths
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Apartments
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Townhomes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Eight Days in May Protests
Robbinsdale Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Most of us wouldn’t consider a 13,000 square foot mansion situated on a six-acre wooded lot with...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Milford Monument
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Little Falls Depot
District 6 School in New Sweden
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Almelund Creamery
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Cobden
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Florence Town Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Little Marais Inn
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to Hanska
The Duluth Homestead Project
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Meyer School In St Augusta
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Franconia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Le Sueur Theater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Wasioja
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Endion School In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Old Brewery In Preston
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Dotson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Green Lake Mounds
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Moving Old Hibbing
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Old School In Wolverton
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hanover Bridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The End of the Line in Currie
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Remembering Quadna Resort
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...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

