Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of Minneapolis
In an age before women had the right to vote, Elizabeth C. Quinlan was a natural entrepreneur who...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wilder Public Baths
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Townhomes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Greater Minnesota
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ness Congregation was originally organized as the Norwegian Evangelical St. Johannes...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Lincoln Branch of the Duluth Public Library opened in 1917 thanks to $30,000 from Andrew...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lost Highway 61
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Endion School In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Dotson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Sandstone
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
District 6 School in New Sweden
Enter Marlon Brando
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Wasioja
Historic Franconia
Red Wing Iron Works
District 48 School Near Delano
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bend in the River Regional Park
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Cobden
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hollywood Town Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Almelund Creamery
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome to Hanska
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Visiting Golden Gate
Hanover Bridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The End of the Line in Currie
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Milford Monument
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Florence Town Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Old School In Wolverton
Green Lake Mounds
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Old Wadena
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Endion Depot In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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