Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Apartments
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Greater Minnesota
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
The Le Sueur Theater
The Le Sueur Theater on Main Street in Le Sueur, Minnesota, opened in 1884. The building was...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Wasioja
Florence Town Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Church of the Holy Cross
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Red Wing Iron Works
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Milford Monument
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Cobden
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Jordan Brewery Complex
Oxford Mill Ruin
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lost Highway 61
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood Town Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Almelund Creamery
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Endion School In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Little Marais Inn
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hanover Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Moderne New Ulm Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Dotson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Visiting Golden Gate
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Enter Marlon Brando
Little Falls Depot
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Green Lake Mounds
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Franconia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
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...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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