The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
Twin Cities Area
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance Building In...
The Germania Life Insurance Building was built in 1889 at Fourth Street and Minnesota in downtown...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wilder Public Baths
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Red Wing Iron Works
Red Wing Iron Works was founded in 1866 by brothers Benjamin and Daniel Densmore. They found a...
Florence Town Hall
Florence Town Hall is located along Highway 61 in Frontenac Station. The land to build the town...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lundring Service Station in Canby
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Green Lake Mounds
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Remembering Quadna Resort
Visiting Golden Gate
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome to Hanska
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Endion School In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hollywood Town Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The New Ulm Company Service Station
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
District 48 School Near Delano
Lost Highway 61
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Ottawa
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Old School In Wolverton
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lincoln Park In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Moving Old Hibbing
Old Brewery In Preston
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Little Marais Inn
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Church of the Holy Cross
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Wasioja
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Dotson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Franconia
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Enter Marlon Brando
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Cobden
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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