Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Townhomes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Landmark Center In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gates of Stonebridge
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Robbinsdale Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Greater Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Remembering Quadna Resort
When I arrived at the Quadna Resort, I felt like I’d stepped back in time. Although the lodge...
Exploring Ottawa
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
District 48 School Near Delano
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Old Wadena
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Endion Depot In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Wasioja
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hanover Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Franconia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Cobden
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hollywood Town Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Old School In Wolverton
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lost Highway 61
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Florence Town Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Endion School In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome to Hanska
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Church of the Holy Cross
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Jordan Brewery Complex
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Le Sueur Theater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Little Falls Depot
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
State Theater In Hutchinson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Green Lake Mounds
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Visiting Golden Gate
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Milford Monument
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Sandstone
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Oxford Mill Ruin
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Little Marais Inn
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The End of the Line in Currie
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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