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
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Originally named the Palazzo, the Colonnade Hotel opened on St. Peter Street in Saint Paul in 1888...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wilder Public Baths
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Apartments
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Robbinsdale Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Greater Minnesota
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Minnesota Home School for Girls was established by the state legislature in 1907 as a...
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Green Lake Mounds
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Le Sueur Theater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Little Marais Inn
The Old School In Wolverton
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Milford Monument
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Cobden
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hollywood Town Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The End of the Line in Currie
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome to Hanska
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Endion School In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Sandstone
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lost Highway 61
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Duluth Homestead Project
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Little Falls Depot
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Meyer School In St Augusta
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bend in the River Regional Park
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Ruins of Sawyer School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Almelund Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Old Wadena
Visiting Golden Gate
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Oxford Mill Ruin
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Dotson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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