The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
Twin Cities Area
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Robbinsdale Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gates of Stonebridge
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wilder Public Baths
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Saint Paul Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Before the Interstate Bridge was built between Duluth and Superior in the late-1890s, the only way...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Visiting Golden Gate
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Almelund Creamery
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Wasioja
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Red Wing Iron Works
The Le Sueur Theater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hollywood Town Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Cobden
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Florence Town Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Franconia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Moving Old Hibbing
The Church of the Holy Cross
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Dotson
Hanover Bridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
District 48 School Near Delano
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lost Highway 61
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Little Falls Depot
Enter Marlon Brando
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to Hanska
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion School In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Green Lake Mounds
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Old School In Wolverton
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bend in the River Regional Park
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
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...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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