Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
In 1899, the Twin City Rapid Transit Company extended its reach of their streetcars to the...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Eight Days in May Protests
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Greater Minnesota
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
At around 3:30 p.m. on February 5, 1924, the most devastating mining disaster in Minnesota history...
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
Jordan Brewery Complex
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Little Falls Depot
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Old School In Wolverton
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lost Highway 61
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Green Lake Mounds
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Ruins of Sawyer School
Endion School In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
The Milford Monument
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Enter Marlon Brando
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Red Wing Iron Works
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Sandstone
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Moving Old Hibbing
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome to Hanska
District 6 School in New Sweden
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Remembering Quadna Resort
Moderne New Ulm Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Le Sueur Theater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Wasioja
Bend in the River Regional Park
District 48 School Near Delano
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lundring Service Station in Canby
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Dotson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Cobden
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hollywood Town Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Almelund Creamery
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Florence Town Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Franconia
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...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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