The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
Twin Cities Area
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wilder Public Baths
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Eight Days in May Protests
Landmark Center In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gates of Stonebridge
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Historic Wasioja
Wasioja, Minnesota, was a thriving community in the 1850s and 1860s. The village was settled in...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Rush City Creamery Cooperative was organized in 1907 by a group of local dairy farmers. After...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Finding The Past In Swatara
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion School In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Moving Old Hibbing
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Old Wadena
District 48 School Near Delano
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Ottawa
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood Town Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Old School In Wolverton
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Little Falls Depot
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Milford Monument
The Little Marais Inn
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Ruins of Sawyer School
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome to Hanska
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Oxford Mill Ruin
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Green Lake Mounds
The Almelund Creamery
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hanover Bridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...

