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
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Apartments
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wilder Public Baths
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Endion School In Duluth
The Endion School in Duluth, Minnesota, was built in 1890. The architect who designed the three...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Archibald mill is located on the banks of the Cannon River in Dundas. Brothers John S. and...
The End of the Line in Currie
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Endion Depot In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Visiting Golden Gate
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome to Hanska
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Moving Old Hibbing
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Florence Town Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Old School In Wolverton
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Milford Monument
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Green Lake Mounds
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Le Sueur Theater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hollywood Town Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lost Highway 61
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Little Marais Inn
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Ottawa
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Old Wadena
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Finding The Past In Swatara
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Wasioja
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Enter Marlon Brando
The Duluth Homestead Project
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Sandstone
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Franconia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
State Theater In Hutchinson
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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