Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Townhomes
The Saint Paul Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Robbinsdale Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Greater Minnesota
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
After a devastating forest fire obliterated the villages of Finlayson, Hinckley, Miller, Mission...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Hanover Bridge
Welcome to Hanska
The End of the Line in Currie
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Old Brewery In Preston
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Jordan Brewery Complex
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Le Sueur Theater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Little Marais Inn
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Moving Old Hibbing
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Wasioja
Lundring Service Station in Canby
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Oxford Mill Ruin
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Munger Terrace In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hollywood Town Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Sandstone
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lost Highway 61
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Little Falls Depot
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Old School In Wolverton
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
State Theater In Hutchinson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Dotson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Cobden
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Duluth Homestead Project
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Florence Town Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Franconia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Ottawa
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown