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
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Robbinsdale Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wilder Public Baths
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Greater Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Daniel Piper came to Minnesota from New Hampshire with his wife and daughter in early 1877...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Florence Town Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Franconia
The Almelund Creamery
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Cobden
Ruins of Sawyer School
Finding The Past In Swatara
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Hanover Bridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Little Marais Inn
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Ottawa
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lundring Service Station in Canby
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Red Wing Iron Works
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Enter Marlon Brando
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome to Hanska
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Green Lake Mounds
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
District 48 School Near Delano
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Visiting Golden Gate
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Oxford Mill Ruin
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Old Brewery In Preston
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Old School In Wolverton
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bend in the River Regional Park
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lost Highway 61
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
District 6 School in New Sweden
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hollywood Town Hall
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...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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