Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The St Paul Hotel has been the backbone of charm and elegance in downtown St Paul since it opened...
The Swinford Apartments
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Robbinsdale Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Landmark Center In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Eight Days in May Protests
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Englanders who settled in the St Croix Valley were drawn there because of the thick, wild...
Hanover Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Finding The Past In Swatara
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
The Milford Monument
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bend in the River Regional Park
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Moderne New Ulm Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Little Marais Inn
The Le Sueur Theater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Ottawa
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
Old Brewery In Preston
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome to Hanska
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The End of the Line in Currie
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Cobden
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Franconia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Moving Old Hibbing
Little Falls Depot
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lost Highway 61
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Wasioja
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Enter Marlon Brando
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Dotson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Florence Town Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Endion School In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Meyer School In St Augusta
Red Wing Iron Works
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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