Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
District #28 School in Ramsey
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Greater Minnesota
Historic Wasioja
Wasioja, Minnesota, was a thriving community in the 1850s and 1860s. The village was settled in...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Early settler and local banker Edson Smith built this French Second Empire style home for his...
Exploring Sandstone
The End of the Line in Currie
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
State Theater In Hutchinson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Florence Town Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Old Wadena
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Milford Monument
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
District 48 School Near Delano
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Oxford Mill Ruin
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Enter Marlon Brando
The Almelund Creamery
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hanover Bridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
The Duluth Homestead Project
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
Visiting Golden Gate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Green Lake Mounds
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Moving Old Hibbing
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hollywood Town Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Franconia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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
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
Old Brewery In Preston