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
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Martha G. Ripley Hospital for Women was a pioneering institution in the history of Minnesota...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Townhomes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Greater Minnesota
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Geldner Sawmill stands on a narrow strip of land that separates Lake Jefferson and German Lake...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
William Colvill — does that name ring a bell? Unless you're a Civil War history buff, this name...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lost Highway 61
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Little Falls Depot
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Old School In Wolverton
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Dotson
Florence Town Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Sandstone
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Visiting Golden Gate
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Franconia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Moving Old Hibbing
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Church of the Holy Cross
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hanover Bridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Endion School In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Finding The Past In Swatara
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Endion Depot In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
District 48 School Near Delano
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bend in the River Regional Park
Ruins of Sawyer School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome to Hanska
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
District 6 School in New Sweden
Green Lake Mounds
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Cobden
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Milford Monument
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Red Wing Iron Works
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Wasioja
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood Town Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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