Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Horatio Alden Smith made the bulk of his fortune as the co-owner of the Smith and Wyman Sash and...
The Gates of Stonebridge
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wilder Public Baths
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Eight Days in May Protests
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Townhomes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Robbinsdale Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Apartments
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Cobden
Cobden, Minnesota, was incorporated in 1905. The little railroad town included a bank, creamery...
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Little Falls Depot
Historic Franconia
Endion School In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Remembering Quadna Resort
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Old Wadena
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Enter Marlon Brando
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
District 48 School Near Delano
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Oxford Mill Ruin
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome to Hanska
The End of the Line in Currie
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Ottawa
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hanover Bridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hollywood Town Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Florence Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Green Lake Mounds
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Duluth Homestead Project
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Church of the Holy Cross
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
State Theater In Hutchinson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Le Sueur Theater
The Almelund Creamery
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Sandstone
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Visiting Golden Gate
District 6 School in New Sweden
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Little Marais Inn
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Milford Monument
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Dotson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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