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
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Saint Paul Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Apartments
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Rush City Creamery Cooperative was organized in 1907 by a group of local dairy farmers. After...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Pine Tree Lumber Company was established in Little Falls in 1890. Located on the banks of the...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Church of the Holy Cross
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The End of the Line in Currie
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion School In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Old Wadena
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Moving Old Hibbing
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Ruins of Sawyer School
District 48 School Near Delano
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
State Theater In Hutchinson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Dotson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Cobden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Old School In Wolverton
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Sandstone
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Green Lake Mounds
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Jordan Brewery Complex
Remembering Quadna Resort
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lincoln Park In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Florence Town Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Visiting Golden Gate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lost Highway 61
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Milford Monument
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Almond White and the Motley Castle
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Little Marais Inn
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Finding The Past In Swatara
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hanover Bridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Endion Depot In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome to Hanska
Little Falls Depot
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Munger Terrace 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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
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...

