Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Martha G. Ripley Hospital for Women was a pioneering institution in the history of Minnesota...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wilder Public Baths
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Robbinsdale Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Eight Days in May Protests
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Landmark Center In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Apartments
Greater Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Originally built as the second home of the First Swedish Baptist Church in 1910, the Temple Baptist...
Meyer School In St Augusta
The original District 35 (Meyer) school was a log structure built around 1868. As the population of...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Little Falls Depot
Hollywood Town Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome to Hanska
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Old Brewery In Preston
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Cobden
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 48 School Near Delano
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Dotson
The End of the Line in Currie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
The Old School In Wolverton
The Milford Monument
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Old Wadena
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Endion School In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Duluth Homestead Project
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lost Highway 61
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Church of the Holy Cross
Enter Marlon Brando
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Endion Depot In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Red Wing Iron Works
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Sandstone
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hanover Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Jordan Brewery Complex
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Florence Town Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Little Marais Inn
Visiting Golden Gate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Wasioja
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
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...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Old Brewery In Preston