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
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
All of Theodore and Louise Hamm’s children stayed close to their family home and business. Most...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Landmark Center In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wilder Public Baths
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Milford Monument
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Lost Highway 61
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome to Hanska
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Wasioja
Moving Old Hibbing
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Duluth Homestead Project
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Sandstone
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Visiting Golden Gate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Old Wadena
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Green Lake Mounds
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
District 48 School Near Delano
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Endion School In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Cobden
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Old School In Wolverton
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Almelund Creamery
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bend in the River Regional Park
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hanover Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
State Theater In Hutchinson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Red Wing Iron Works
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Jordan Brewery Complex
Oxford Mill Ruin
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Little Falls Depot
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Ottawa
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hollywood Town Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Meyer School In St Augusta
Old Brewery In Preston
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
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...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
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