Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
District #28 School in Ramsey
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Eight Days in May Protests
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Saint Paul Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gates of Stonebridge
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wilder Public Baths
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Greater Minnesota
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Vermont-native Almond A. White came to Minnesota after the Civil War and settled in Brainerd for a...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The public library in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota was built in 1913 with a $10,000 grant from Andrew...
Red Wing Iron Works
Old Brewery In Preston
Visiting Golden Gate
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lost Highway 61
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Moving Old Hibbing
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Meyer School In St Augusta
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Almelund Creamery
The Milford Monument
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Jordan Brewery Complex
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Franconia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Dotson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Enter Marlon Brando
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Finding The Past In Swatara
Green Lake Mounds
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome to Hanska
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The New Ulm Company Service Station
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Florence Town Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
State Theater In Hutchinson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hollywood Town Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Church of the Holy Cross
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Ottawa
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hanover Bridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
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...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
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