Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gates of Stonebridge
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Townhomes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry D. Huff was a land speculator who built a brick and stone Italian Villa-style house on a...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The George and Charlotte Crosby house is located just a few blocks east of downtown Duluth...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Milford Monument
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Green Lake Mounds
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Florence Town Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Almelund Creamery
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Ottawa
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hanover Bridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome To Cobden
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Old Wadena
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Franconia
Little Falls Depot
Oxford Mill Ruin
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
District 6 School in New Sweden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Little Marais Inn
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Wasioja
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Duluth Homestead Project
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Endion School In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering Quadna Resort
District 48 School Near Delano
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Moving Old Hibbing
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Old Brewery In Preston
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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
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
Old Brewery In Preston