Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Robbinsdale Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Townhomes
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gates of Stonebridge
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Greater Minnesota
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The public library in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota was built in 1913 with a $10,000 grant from Andrew...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
District 48 School Near Delano
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood Town Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Dotson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Jordan Brewery Complex
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome to Hanska
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Remembering Quadna Resort
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Meyer School In St Augusta
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Moderne New Ulm Library
Endion School In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Little Marais Inn
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The End of the Line in Currie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Almelund Creamery
Endion Depot In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Cobden
Little Falls Depot
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Enter Marlon Brando
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Sandstone
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bend in the River Regional Park
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Ruins of Sawyer School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Florence Town Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Green Lake Mounds
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Milford Monument
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hanover Bridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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