Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles G. Jackson immigrated to the U.S. and purchased the Anoka House, the oldest hotel in Anoka...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wilder Public Baths
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Historic Wasioja
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
Lost Highway 61
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
The End of the Line in Currie
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Duluth Homestead Project
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Cobden
Almond White and the Motley Castle
State Theater In Hutchinson
Little Falls Depot
Jordan Brewery Complex
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Almelund Creamery
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Oxford Mill Ruin
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Little Marais Inn
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Le Sueur Theater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Old Wadena
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Dotson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Ruins of Sawyer School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hollywood Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Sandstone
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Moderne New Ulm Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Church of the Holy Cross
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Franconia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Visiting Golden Gate
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Endion School In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
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...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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