Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wilder Public Baths
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Robbinsdale Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Greater Minnesota
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Duluth Homestead Project, also known as the Jackson Project, began under the United States...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
In 1872, Joseph Schmucker took over operation of Friton Brewery, which was the first brewery to...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Jordan Brewery Complex
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hollywood Town Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Endion School In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Little Falls Depot
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
Lost Highway 61
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Little Marais Inn
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Old Wadena
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Franconia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Florence Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Old Brewery In Preston
The Almelund Creamery
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Randall Cooperative Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Oxford Mill Ruin
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Dotson
Hanover Bridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Moving Old Hibbing
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 48 School Near Delano
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Ruins of Sawyer School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Le Sueur Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The End of the Line in Currie
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Sandstone
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
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...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
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