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
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Lustron homes along Nicollet Avenue near 50th Street S in Minneapolis are among nearly 2,500 of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Apartments
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Wilder Public Baths
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Robbinsdale Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Townhomes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Landmark Center In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
In 1909, just eight years after this school was built in Sandstone, lightning struck. Sadly, the...
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to Hanska
District 48 School Near Delano
Finding The Past In Swatara
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Cobden
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering Quadna Resort
Old Brewery In Preston
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hanover Bridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Visiting Golden Gate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Wasioja
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Jordan Brewery Complex
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Almelund Creamery
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Milford Monument
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Red Wing Iron Works
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Florence Town Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Moderne New Ulm Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Little Falls Depot
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Little Marais Inn
The End of the Line in Currie
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Old Wadena
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lost Highway 61
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Church of the Holy Cross
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Franconia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
Oxford Mill Ruin
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Sandstone
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lundring Service Station in Canby
State Theater In Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Old School In Wolverton
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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