Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wilder Public Baths
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gates of Stonebridge
Robbinsdale Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
I’m sure we’ve all made typos that made us cringe once we noticed them. But most of our...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Chisago County State Bank was built in Center City in 1915. In August 1925, more than 60...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Ottawa
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Sandstone
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bend in the River Regional Park
Red Wing Iron Works
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The End of the Line in Currie
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
State Theater In Hutchinson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Enter Marlon Brando
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Oxford Mill Ruin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Dotson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Randall Cooperative Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Meyer School In St Augusta
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Cobden
The Little Marais Inn
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Little Falls Depot
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome to Hanska
District 48 School Near Delano
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Florence Town Hall
Lost Highway 61
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Duluth Homestead Project
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
The Almelund Creamery
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Le Sueur Theater
Hanover Bridge
The Old School In Wolverton
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Moving Old Hibbing
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Visiting Golden Gate
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Endion School In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Wasioja
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
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...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...

