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
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The first branch library in the Minneapolis Public Library system was built in 1893-1894 and is one...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Apartments
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Robbinsdale Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The West Bridge in Madelia, Minnesota, was built in 1908. It is the earliest remaining example of a...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Red Wing Iron Works
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Ottawa
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Florence Town Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Almelund Creamery
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Hollywood Town Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Jordan Brewery Complex
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Milford Monument
Endion School In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
District 48 School Near Delano
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Cobden
Enter Marlon Brando
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lost Highway 61
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lundring Service Station in Canby
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Sandstone
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Oxford Mill Ruin
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Finding The Past In Swatara
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hanover Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Green Lake Mounds
State Theater In Hutchinson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
District 6 School in New Sweden
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Franconia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Duluth Homestead Project
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome to Hanska
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
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...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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...
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
Old Brewery In Preston