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
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School opened in Minneapolis in 1932. The school was named after Mary...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Robbinsdale Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
Hanover Bridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Wasioja
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
The Church of the Holy Cross
Munger Terrace In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Little Falls Depot
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
The End of the Line in Currie
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Milford Monument
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Green Lake Mounds
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Dotson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bend in the River Regional Park
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Endion School In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Endion Depot In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Little Marais Inn
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Moderne New Ulm Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Meyer School In St Augusta
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Old Brewery In Preston
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Cobden
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome to Hanska
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Remembering Quadna Resort
Enter Marlon Brando
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Ruins of Sawyer School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Moving Old Hibbing
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Old School In Wolverton
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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