Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
Wilder Public Baths
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Apartments
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Townhomes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Robbinsdale Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Greater Minnesota
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
After one hundred and twenty years, the mystery of what happened to Clara Ober between the evening...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Old School In Wolverton
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Duluth Homestead Project
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Little Falls Depot
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Milford Monument
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Dotson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Cobden
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The End of the Line in Currie
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Oxford Mill Ruin
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Visiting Golden Gate
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
State Theater In Hutchinson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Red Wing Iron Works
Bend in the River Regional Park
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Almelund Creamery
Jordan Brewery Complex
Florence Town Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Little Marais Inn
The Le Sueur Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Moving Old Hibbing
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Endion School In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome to Hanska
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Green Lake Mounds
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hanover Bridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Incline Railway
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Franconia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lost Highway 61
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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