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
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis was one of the rare mills in the city that had four finished...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
District #28 School in Ramsey
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Robbinsdale Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wilder Public Baths
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Saint Paul Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Greater Minnesota
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Chisago County State Bank was built in Center City in 1915. In August 1925, more than 60...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
September 24, 1909 At 4:20 a.m., an off-duty worker at the Fergus Falls City Light Station woke up...
Endion School In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Almelund Creamery
The Milford Monument
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Little Marais Inn
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Florence Town Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Wasioja
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Franconia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Ruins of Sawyer School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Old Wadena
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Little Falls Depot
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Red Wing Iron Works
The Duluth Homestead Project
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Dotson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Green Lake Mounds
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hollywood Town Hall
Lost Highway 61
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome to Hanska
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Le Sueur Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Visiting Golden Gate
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
District 48 School Near Delano
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
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
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
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 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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
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...
The Carnegie Libraries Of 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
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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