Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
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 Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s Town
When Samuel Pandolfo arrived in St. Cloud in 1917, he dreamed of building an automobile empire that...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Harry A. Subilia was an Italian immigrant who opened the first distillery in New Ulm, Minnesota. He...
District 48 School Near Delano
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
State Theater In Hutchinson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Dotson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Moving Old Hibbing
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
Endion School In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Jordan Brewery Complex
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome to Hanska
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Almelund Creamery
Moderne New Ulm Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Endion Depot In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Old Brewery In Preston
The Milford Monument
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bend in the River Regional Park
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Florence Town Hall
Hanover Bridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Little Falls Depot
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Sandstone
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Green Lake Mounds
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Visiting Golden Gate
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hollywood Town Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Old School In Wolverton
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
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