Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Robbinsdale Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Scottish immigrant James G Craigie settled in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, along with his wife...
Lost Highway 61
History buffs and curiosity seekers revel in finding a piece of the past. Stumbling across...
The Little Marais Inn
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Old Brewery In Preston
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Green Lake Mounds
District 48 School Near Delano
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Meyer School In St Augusta
Enter Marlon Brando
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hanover Bridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Endion School In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hollywood Town Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Milford Monument
The End of the Line in Currie
Florence Town Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Visiting Golden Gate
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Endion Depot In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Dotson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Wasioja
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Franconia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Cobden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Ottawa
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Old Wadena
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Dead Good Walks
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
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 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 Eloise Butler?
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
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...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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