Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Landmark Center In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Apartments
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion Depot In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Old Wadena
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Milford Monument
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Florence Town Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Jordan Brewery Complex
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Cobden
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Almelund Creamery
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Wasioja
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 6 School in New Sweden
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Ottawa
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Enter Marlon Brando
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hollywood Town Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Old School In Wolverton
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Red Wing Iron Works
The Little Marais Inn
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Remembering Quadna Resort
State Theater In Hutchinson
The End of the Line in Currie
Lost Highway 61
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Little Falls Depot
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Sandstone
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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