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
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
District #28 School in Ramsey
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Townhomes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Greater Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Originally built as the second home of the First Swedish Baptist Church in 1910, the Temple Baptist...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ness Congregation was originally organized as the Norwegian Evangelical St. Johannes...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Moving Old Hibbing
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Duluth Homestead Project
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Meyer School In St Augusta
Endion School In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lost Highway 61
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Sandstone
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hanover Bridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Little Marais Inn
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Little Falls Depot
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
State Theater In Hutchinson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Wasioja
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Old Wadena
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Milford Monument
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Franconia
The Almelund Creamery
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Red Wing Iron Works
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Old School In Wolverton
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bend in the River Regional Park
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome to Hanska
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Green Lake Mounds
The Le Sueur Theater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Ottawa
Jordan Brewery Complex
Florence Town Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Dotson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood Town Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Remembering Quadna Resort
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses 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