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...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wilder Public Baths
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Saint Paul Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Greater Minnesota
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Washington County District No. 2 was formed in 1857 for the growing number of children moving into...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Minnesota Home School for Girls was established by the state legislature in 1907 as a...
Green Lake Mounds
The New Ulm Company Service Station
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Endion Depot In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bend in the River Regional Park
District 6 School in New Sweden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Visiting Golden Gate
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Red Wing Iron Works
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
District 48 School Near Delano
Moving Old Hibbing
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Ruins of Sawyer School
Remembering Quadna Resort
Florence Town Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Church of the Holy Cross
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hanover Bridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Dotson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Old School In Wolverton
Moderne New Ulm Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Le Sueur Theater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Sandstone
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Old Brewery In Preston
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome to Hanska
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Little Falls Depot
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Little Marais Inn
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Ottawa
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lost Highway 61
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Milford Monument
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Enter Marlon Brando
Hollywood Town Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
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...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
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?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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