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 Eight Days in May Protests
For many at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus, May 9, 1972 started out like any other...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Women’s City Club In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Landmark Center In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wilder Public Baths
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
District #28 School in Ramsey
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
If you’ve been to the Mille Lacs area of Minnesota, there’s a good chance you’ve...
State Theater In Hutchinson
The State Theater in Hutchinson, Minnesota, opened its doors on December 28, 1937. Customers paid...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Red Wing Iron Works
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Old Brewery In Preston
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Endion Depot In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Hollywood Town Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Enter Marlon Brando
The End of the Line in Currie
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Incline Railway
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Green Lake Mounds
District 48 School Near Delano
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Dotson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Florence Town Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome to Hanska
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Sandstone
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Wasioja
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Old School In Wolverton
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Ottawa
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hanover Bridge
The Almelund Creamery
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Little Marais Inn
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Endion School In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Little Falls Depot
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lost Highway 61
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Finding The Past In Swatara
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Milford Monument
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
District 6 School in New Sweden
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
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