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
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wilder Public Baths
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Saint Paul Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Apartments
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
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...
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lost Highway 61
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Wasioja
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Green Lake Mounds
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The Milford Monument
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Endion School In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
District 48 School Near Delano
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Dotson
Visiting Golden Gate
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Little Marais Inn
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Meyer School In St Augusta
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hanover Bridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Red Wing Iron Works
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Remembering Quadna Resort
Endion Depot In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Moving Old Hibbing
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Enter Marlon Brando
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bend in the River Regional Park
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome to Hanska
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Old Brewery In Preston
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Ruins of Sawyer School
Florence Town Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Sandstone
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn 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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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