Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wilder Public Baths
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Greater Minnesota
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Most of us wouldn’t consider a 13,000 square foot mansion situated on a six-acre wooded lot with...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Geldner Sawmill stands on a narrow strip of land that separates Lake Jefferson and German Lake...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Ottawa
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Milford Monument
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lost Highway 61
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Jordan Brewery Complex
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Franconia
Red Wing Iron Works
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Cobden
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
District 48 School Near Delano
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome to Hanska
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hollywood Town Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Remembering Quadna Resort
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Old School In Wolverton
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The End of the Line in Currie
Hanover Bridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Wasioja
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Florence Town Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Green Lake Mounds
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Enter Marlon Brando
Moderne New Ulm Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Church of the Holy Cross
Little Falls Depot
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Sandstone
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Le Sueur Theater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Endion Depot In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
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...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township 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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
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