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 Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gates of Stonebridge
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wilder Public Baths
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
District #28 School in Ramsey
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Apartments
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Landmark Center In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Duluth Homestead Project, also known as the Jackson Project, began under the United States...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Enter Marlon Brando
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Le Sueur Theater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome to Hanska
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Franconia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Dotson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The New Ulm Company Service Station
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Almelund Creamery
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Old Wadena
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Cobden
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The End of the Line in Currie
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hollywood Town Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lost Highway 61
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Florence Town Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Green Lake Mounds
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Wasioja
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Milford Monument
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Oxford Mill Ruin
Red Wing Iron Works
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
State Theater In Hutchinson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Sandstone
The Little Marais Inn
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Visiting Golden Gate
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Moderne New Ulm Library
Little Falls Depot
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
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Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of 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