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