Minneapolis has many beautiful homes, but the Gale mansion is easily one of my top three. I love...
Twin Cities Area
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Beaver Bay is the oldest white settlement along the North Shore of Lake Superior. It was...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
You can’t drive through Zumbrota, Minnesota, without stopping at the covered bridge. It’s located...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Green Lake Mounds
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Little Marais Inn
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Almelund Creamery
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Milford Monument
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome to Hanska
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Ottawa
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Jordan Brewery Complex
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Endion School In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Cobden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hanover Bridge
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Dotson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Franconia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood Town Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Enter Marlon Brando
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Church of the Holy Cross
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Wasioja
The Duluth Homestead Project
Visiting Golden Gate
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Red Wing Iron Works
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Meyer School In St Augusta
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Le Sueur Theater
Oxford Mill Ruin
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
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