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
District #28 School in Ramsey
The District #28 School was constructed in Ramsey in 1892 to replace a smaller, wood frame school...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wilder Public Baths
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Townhomes
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Eight Days in May Protests
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Meyer School In St Augusta
The original District 35 (Meyer) school was a log structure built around 1868. As the population of...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Ruins of Sawyer School
Visiting Golden Gate
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Little Marais Inn
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Finding The Past In Swatara
Jordan Brewery Complex
Little Falls Depot
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Franconia
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Wasioja
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Milford Monument
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Red Wing Iron Works
The Almelund Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Old Brewery In Preston
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lost Highway 61
The Le Sueur Theater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Enter Marlon Brando
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
The Old School In Wolverton
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Green Lake Mounds
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Florence Town Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Ottawa
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Endion Depot In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Dotson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The End of the Line in Currie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hanover Bridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hollywood Town Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

