Minneapolis has many beautiful homes, but the Gale mansion is easily one of my top three. I love...
Twin Cities Area
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Lowry Hotel opened in 1927 and was 12 floors of pure glamour. An addition was made in 1930 to...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Robbinsdale Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wilder Public Baths
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
Green Lake Mounds
Endion Depot In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The End of the Line in Currie
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Ottawa
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
District 6 School in New Sweden
Moderne New Ulm Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
State Theater In Hutchinson
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Le Sueur Theater
Enter Marlon Brando
The Church of the Holy Cross
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lost Highway 61
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Endion School In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Jordan Brewery Complex
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Old School In Wolverton
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Meyer School In St Augusta
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Sandstone
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Wasioja
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Old Wadena
Florence Town Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Little Falls Depot
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Duluth Homestead Project
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Franconia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bend in the River Regional Park
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
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...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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