Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Townhomes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
District #28 School in Ramsey
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Landmark Center In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Greater Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
District 48 School Near Delano
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Cobden
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Endion School In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Old Wadena
Visiting Golden Gate
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Little Marais Inn
The Le Sueur Theater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hanover Bridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome to Hanska
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hollywood Town Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Green Lake Mounds
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Old School In Wolverton
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Wasioja
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Dotson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
State Theater In Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Enter Marlon Brando
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Sandstone
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Franconia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Milford Monument
Florence Town Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Little Falls Depot
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Duluth Homestead Project
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Finding The Past In Swatara
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Almelund Creamery
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lost Highway 61
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Remembering Quadna Resort
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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