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
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wilder Public Baths
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Townhomes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
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...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Moving Old Hibbing
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Old Wadena
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Wasioja
Historic Franconia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Duluth Homestead Project
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Cobden
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Dotson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Green Lake Mounds
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome to Hanska
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Little Falls Depot
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Almelund Creamery
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Meyer School In St Augusta
Ruins of Sawyer School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Remembering Quadna Resort
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
District 48 School Near Delano
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Old School In Wolverton
The End of the Line in Currie
The Church of the Holy Cross
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Red Wing Iron Works
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Ottawa
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Milford Monument
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hanover Bridge
Florence Town Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hollywood Town Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Visiting Golden Gate
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
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...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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