Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Townhomes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Greater Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
I’m sure we’ve all made typos that made us cringe once we noticed them. But most of our...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hanover Bridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Cobden
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Endion School In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome to Hanska
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
District 6 School in New Sweden
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Sandstone
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Milford Monument
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Enter Marlon Brando
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Old Wadena
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Meyer School In St Augusta
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Ottawa
Red Wing Iron Works
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Little Marais Inn
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lost Highway 61
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
District 48 School Near Delano
Little Falls Depot
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Moving Old Hibbing
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
Endion Depot In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The End of the Line in Currie
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Ruins of Sawyer School
Visiting Golden Gate
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Dotson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
State Theater In Hutchinson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Old School In Wolverton
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Almelund Creamery
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Florence Town Hall
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 Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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