Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Originally named the Palazzo, the Colonnade Hotel opened on St. Peter Street in Saint Paul in 1888...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Robbinsdale Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Townhomes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Endion Depot in Duluth, Minnesota, was moved to Canal Park in 1986 to make way for the...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Cobden
Meyer School In St Augusta
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Old Brewery In Preston
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Dotson
Red Wing Iron Works
District 6 School in New Sweden
Moderne New Ulm Library
Moving Old Hibbing
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Welcome to Hanska
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Ottawa
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
District 48 School Near Delano
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The End of the Line in Currie
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
State Theater In Hutchinson
Visiting Golden Gate
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Sandstone
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Wasioja
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Duluth Homestead Project
Florence Town Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Little Marais Inn
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Franconia
Little Falls Depot
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Old School In Wolverton
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hanover Bridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
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
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
