Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
At the turn of the twentieth century, newspapers and magazines touted quack cures and healing cults...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Robbinsdale Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Apartments
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Greater Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Jordan Brewery Complex
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Florence Town Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Little Falls Depot
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Old Brewery In Preston
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Dotson
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Cobden
The End of the Line in Currie
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Endion Depot In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hanover Bridge
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome to Hanska
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lost Highway 61
Red Wing Iron Works
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
District 48 School Near Delano
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Franconia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Milford Monument
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hollywood Town Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Le Sueur Theater
Moving Old Hibbing
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Finding The Past In Swatara
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Sandstone
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Old School In Wolverton
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Endion School In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Ottawa
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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