Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
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...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Apartments
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Sandstone
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Old Brewery In Preston
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Le Sueur Theater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lost Highway 61
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The End of the Line in Currie
Hanover Bridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The New Ulm Company Service Station
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Ottawa
The Milford Monument
The Old School In Wolverton
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Little Falls Depot
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Florence Town Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Moving Old Hibbing
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Moderne New Ulm Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Enter Marlon Brando
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Cobden
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Little Marais Inn
The Duluth Homestead Project
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Franconia
Historic Wasioja
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Almelund Creamery
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Oxford Mill Ruin
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hollywood Town Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome to Hanska
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
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...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
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...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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