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
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg and his wife Dora were the owners of a jewelry store in downtown Minneapolis in the...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Eight Days in May Protests
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gates of Stonebridge
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Apartments
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
The Le Sueur Theater
The Le Sueur Theater on Main Street in Le Sueur, Minnesota, opened in 1884. The building was...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lost Highway 61
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Meyer School In St Augusta
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Franconia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome to Hanska
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion School In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bend in the River Regional Park
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Milford Monument
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion Depot In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Old Brewery In Preston
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hanover Bridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring Sandstone
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Moving Old Hibbing
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Little Marais Inn
District 48 School Near Delano
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Old Wadena
The End of the Line in Currie
The Old School In Wolverton
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Florence Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Cobden
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Ruins of Sawyer School
Oxford Mill Ruin
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
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?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
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