Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wilder Public Baths
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
District 6 School in New Sweden
The District 6 school in New Sweden Township stands in a field surrounded by tall stalks of corn in...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Le Sueur Theater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Remembering Quadna Resort
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Moving Old Hibbing
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Sandstone
Little Falls Depot
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome to Hanska
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hollywood Town Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Meyer School In St Augusta
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
State Theater In Hutchinson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hanover Bridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bend in the River Regional Park
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Milford Monument
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Endion School In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Franconia
District 48 School Near Delano
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Jordan Brewery Complex
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Little Marais Inn
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Old School In Wolverton
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Cobden
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Oxford Mill Ruin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Dotson
Enter Marlon Brando
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Dead Good Walks
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...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township 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 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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
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...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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