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
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
In 1899, the Twin City Rapid Transit Company extended its reach of their streetcars to the...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Apartments
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Saint Paul Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
This old stone chapel was built at the Sunrise Funeral Home and Cemetery in 1949. Located in...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Archibald mill is located on the banks of the Cannon River in Dundas. Brothers John S. and...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lost Highway 61
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Sandstone
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring Ottawa
Moving Old Hibbing
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Enter Marlon Brando
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Finding The Past In Swatara
The End of the Line in Currie
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Florence Town Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Wasioja
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Little Falls Depot
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Franconia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Le Sueur Theater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Ruins of Sawyer School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 48 School Near Delano
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Cobden
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
District 6 School in New Sweden
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Meyer School In St Augusta
Endion Depot In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Red Wing Iron Works
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Old Brewery In Preston
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Milford Monument
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Dotson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Almelund Creamery
The Old School In Wolverton
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Dead Good Walks
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
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses 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