Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Today, The Blaisdell is a wedding and event venue with cozy places to gather with your nearest and...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Saint Paul Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Robbinsdale Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Eight Days in May Protests
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Greater Minnesota
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Early settler and local banker Edson Smith built this French Second Empire style home for his...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
District 48 School Near Delano
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The End of the Line in Currie
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Almelund Creamery
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Franconia
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Wasioja
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Green Lake Mounds
Red Wing Iron Works
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Little Falls Depot
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Old School In Wolverton
Oxford Mill Ruin
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Sandstone
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Enter Marlon Brando
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hanover Bridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Endion School In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lost Highway 61
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Moving Old Hibbing
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Little Marais Inn
Remembering Quadna Resort
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Endion Depot In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Old Brewery In Preston
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Cobden
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Old Wadena
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Milford Monument
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Le Sueur Theater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Church of the Holy Cross
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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