Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
For many at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus, May 9, 1972 started out like any other...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Apartments
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome To Cobden
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Old Wadena
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Franconia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The End of the Line in Currie
Little Falls Depot
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Enter Marlon Brando
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lost Highway 61
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
District 48 School Near Delano
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
State Theater In Hutchinson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Ottawa
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Moving Old Hibbing
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Sandstone
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Visiting Golden Gate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Jordan Brewery Complex
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Oxford Mill Ruin
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hanover Bridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Old Brewery In Preston
Florence Town Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
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...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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