Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Minneapolis has many beautiful homes, but the Gale mansion is easily one of my top three. I love...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Eight Days in May Protests
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Saint Paul Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Landmark Center In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Apartments
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wilder Public Baths
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Robbinsdale Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Greater Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Exploring Ottawa
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Old School In Wolverton
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lost Highway 61
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lundring Service Station in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hanover Bridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Dotson
Finding The Past In Swatara
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Wasioja
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Florence Town Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Old Wadena
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Franconia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Hollywood Town Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Cobden
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Meyer School In St Augusta
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Red Wing Iron Works
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Enter Marlon Brando
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Church of the Holy Cross
District 48 School Near Delano
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Little Falls Depot
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome to Hanska
Bend in the River Regional Park
Moving Old Hibbing
Green Lake Mounds
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The End of the Line in Currie
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
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...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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