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
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s Guardians of Health
The Washburn water tower sits on a hill in the heart of the Washburn Park (commonly known as...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Townhomes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gates of Stonebridge
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wilder Public Baths
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
Meyer School In St Augusta
The original District 35 (Meyer) school was a log structure built around 1868. As the population of...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Dotson
Green Lake Mounds
The Milford Monument
Red Wing Iron Works
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Florence Town Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The End of the Line in Currie
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Oxford Mill Ruin
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Duluth Homestead Project
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Wasioja
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Visiting Golden Gate
The Almelund Creamery
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hanover Bridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Moderne New Ulm Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Enter Marlon Brando
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Remembering Quadna Resort
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome to Hanska
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bend in the River Regional Park
Little Falls Depot
Finding The Past In Swatara
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Franconia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Old Wadena
Endion Depot In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Wandering Around The Toimi School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Old School In Wolverton
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
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?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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