Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wilder Public Baths
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Greater Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
Hollywood Town Hall
The Carver County District Number 76 School was built in 1906 and opened for classes in the fall of...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lost Highway 61
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Moving Old Hibbing
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Ruins of Sawyer School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Old Wadena
Remembering Quadna Resort
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Milford Monument
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Little Marais Inn
The End of the Line in Currie
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Florence Town Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
The Almelund Creamery
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Sandstone
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome to Hanska
Jordan Brewery Complex
Endion School In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Old School In Wolverton
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Visiting Golden Gate
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Le Sueur Theater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Enter Marlon Brando
Endion Depot In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Bend in the River Regional Park
Green Lake Mounds
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Church of the Holy Cross
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
District 48 School Near Delano
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
District 6 School in New Sweden
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hanover Bridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Franconia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

