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...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Eight Days in May Protests
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wilder Public Baths
Robbinsdale Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry D. Huff was a land speculator who built a brick and stone Italian Villa-style house on a...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Churchill Methodist Church is located in present-day Brookfield Township, Minnesota. The...
Endion Depot In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hanover Bridge
Enter Marlon Brando
The Old School In Wolverton
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Little Falls Depot
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Remembering Quadna Resort
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Ottawa
Hollywood Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Visiting Golden Gate
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Moderne New Ulm Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Meyer School In St Augusta
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Le Sueur Theater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Little Marais Inn
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Milford Monument
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Green Lake Mounds
Red Wing Iron Works
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Sandstone
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Dotson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Cobden
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The End of the Line in Currie
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Moving Old Hibbing
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Ruins of Sawyer School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Wasioja
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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