Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Apartments
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Robbinsdale Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Townhomes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wilder Public Baths
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
District #28 School in Ramsey
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
William Colvill — does that name ring a bell? Unless you're a Civil War history buff, this name...
State Theater In Hutchinson
The State Theater in Hutchinson, Minnesota, opened its doors on December 28, 1937. Customers paid...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Moving Old Hibbing
The Old School In Wolverton
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Almelund Creamery
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hanover Bridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Cobden
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Ruins of Sawyer School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Florence Town Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Meyer School In St Augusta
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Red Wing Iron Works
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Ottawa
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Wasioja
District 48 School Near Delano
Hollywood Town Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Milford Monument
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Dotson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Visiting Golden Gate
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Le Sueur Theater
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

