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
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Built in 1913, the Charles and Grace Parker House was designed by the nationally-prominent Prairie...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Landmark Center In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Townhomes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Eight Days in May Protests
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Greater Minnesota
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Vermont-native Almond A. White came to Minnesota after the Civil War and settled in Brainerd for a...
Little Falls Depot
Construction started on the railroad depot in Little Falls in 1899. It was designed by Cass Gilbert...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Wasioja
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
The End of the Line in Currie
The Old School In Wolverton
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Florence Town Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Little Marais Inn
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Old Wadena
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Dotson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Moving Old Hibbing
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Ruins of Sawyer School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Milford Monument
The Le Sueur Theater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Old Brewery In Preston
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Red Wing Iron Works
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Enter Marlon Brando
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lost Highway 61
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Meyer School In St Augusta
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Almelund Creamery
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Duluth Homestead Project
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Visiting Golden Gate
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bend in the River Regional Park
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hollywood Town Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Sandstone
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Cobden
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
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...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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