Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was founded in January 1897. The church...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
District #28 School in Ramsey
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Saint Paul Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Robbinsdale Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
William Colvill — does that name ring a bell? Unless you're a Civil War history buff, this name...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Old School In Wolverton
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Green Lake Mounds
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Red Wing Iron Works
Enter Marlon Brando
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Cobden
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Remembering Quadna Resort
Endion Depot In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Milford Monument
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Florence Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Visiting Golden Gate
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
State Theater In Hutchinson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Moving Old Hibbing
The Little Marais Inn
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Sandstone
Endion School In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Meyer School In St Augusta
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hanover Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Franconia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hollywood Town Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Dotson
Lost Highway 61
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The End of the Line in Currie
The Le Sueur Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Ottawa
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 6 School in New Sweden
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
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...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
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