Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The St Paul Hotel has been the backbone of charm and elegance in downtown St Paul since it opened...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wilder Public Baths
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Greater Minnesota
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State Hospital
In 1873, the State of Minnesota was looking for a way to house an increasingly problematic group of...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lost Highway 61
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Visiting Golden Gate
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Franconia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hollywood Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Dotson
Enter Marlon Brando
Ruins of Sawyer School
District 48 School Near Delano
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bend in the River Regional Park
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The End of the Line in Currie
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Cobden
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Ottawa
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Little Falls Depot
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Almelund Creamery
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Green Lake Mounds
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Endion Depot In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Red Wing Iron Works
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
The Old School In Wolverton
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Florence Town Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...

