Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg and his wife Dora were the owners of a jewelry store in downtown Minneapolis in the...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Robbinsdale Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Eight Days in May Protests
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Old School In Wolverton
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Green Lake Mounds
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Sandstone
Endion Depot In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion School In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome to Hanska
Jordan Brewery Complex
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Meyer School In St Augusta
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Dotson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hollywood Town Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Moving Old Hibbing
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Enter Marlon Brando
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The End of the Line in Currie
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Little Falls Depot
District 48 School Near Delano
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Old Wadena
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Franconia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Ottawa
The New Ulm Company Service Station
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Ruins of Sawyer School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Almelund Creamery
The Church of the Holy Cross
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Cobden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Red Wing Iron Works
Oxford Mill Ruin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Visiting Golden Gate
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lost Highway 61
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Wasioja
The Milford Monument
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
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
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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