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
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Lowry Hotel opened in 1927 and was 12 floors of pure glamour. An addition was made in 1930 to...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Red Wing Iron Works
Red Wing Iron Works was founded in 1866 by brothers Benjamin and Daniel Densmore. They found a...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Moderne New Ulm Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Little Falls Depot
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Le Sueur Theater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Moving Old Hibbing
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Wasioja
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lost Highway 61
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Milford Monument
Hollywood Town Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The End of the Line in Currie
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Green Lake Mounds
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Little Marais Inn
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Franconia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Endion School In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Finding The Past In Swatara
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Florence Town Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Church of the Holy Cross
Visiting Golden Gate
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
State Theater In Hutchinson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome to Hanska
District 48 School Near Delano
Hanover Bridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Dotson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Ottawa
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bend in the River Regional Park
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Old School In Wolverton
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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