Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of Minneapolis
In an age before women had the right to vote, Elizabeth C. Quinlan was a natural entrepreneur who...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Townhomes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Robbinsdale Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Apartments
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Greater Minnesota
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...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to one of the most awe-inspiring buildings in Minnesota. It’s big. It’s...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Cobden
The Little Marais Inn
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
District 48 School Near Delano
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
District 6 School in New Sweden
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Red Wing Iron Works
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Wasioja
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Florence Town Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Dotson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Enter Marlon Brando
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Franconia
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Duluth Homestead Project
Remembering Quadna Resort
The End of the Line in Currie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Green Lake Mounds
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Old School In Wolverton
The Milford Monument
Hanover Bridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Ruins of Sawyer School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The New Ulm Company Service Station
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Endion Depot In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Ottawa
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lost Highway 61
Welcome to Hanska
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Old Brewery In Preston
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Le Sueur Theater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Sandstone
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
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...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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