Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey 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...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Robbinsdale Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wilder Public Baths
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Greater Minnesota
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Enter Marlon Brando
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Endion School In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Wasioja
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Visiting Golden Gate
Florence Town Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Milford Monument
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lost Highway 61
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Church of the Holy Cross
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Cobden
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Little Marais Inn
Little Falls Depot
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The End of the Line in Currie
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Franconia
Moving Old Hibbing
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Ottawa
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome to Hanska
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Red Wing Iron Works
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Meyer School In St Augusta
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bend in the River Regional Park
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Le Sueur Theater
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
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...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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