Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Robbinsdale Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
District #28 School in Ramsey
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Chisago County State Bank was built in Center City in 1915. In August 1925, more than 60...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
In 1929, the Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge was established in Lanesboro, Minnesota. Membership...
Little Falls Depot
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Meyer School In St Augusta
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome to Hanska
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lost Highway 61
Visiting Golden Gate
The End of the Line in Currie
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Enter Marlon Brando
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Almelund Creamery
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Red Wing Iron Works
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Old Brewery In Preston
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Wasioja
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Old School In Wolverton
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
The Little Marais Inn
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Cobden
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Florence Town Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Ottawa
Moderne New Ulm Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Milford Monument
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bend in the River Regional Park
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Franconia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Moving Old Hibbing
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Finding The Past In Swatara
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
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...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial 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