The St Paul Hotel has been the backbone of charm and elegance in downtown St Paul since it opened...
Twin Cities Area
The Saint Paul Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Apartments
Wilder Public Baths
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Little Falls Depot
Construction started on the railroad depot in Little Falls in 1899. It was designed by Cass Gilbert...
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Church of the Holy Cross
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Little Marais Inn
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Cobden
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Visiting Golden Gate
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Old Wadena
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Sandstone
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bend in the River Regional Park
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The End of the Line in Currie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Red Wing Iron Works
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Endion School In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
State Theater In Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Milford Monument
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Wasioja
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Le Sueur Theater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hanover Bridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Green Lake Mounds
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Dotson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Moving Old Hibbing
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Franconia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Ottawa
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
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?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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