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
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Wilder Public Baths
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Townhomes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Robbinsdale Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Planning for a new road for stagecoach travel westward from the Mississippi began in the winter of...
Hanover Bridge
Hanover Bridge was constructed by the Morse Bridge Company of Youngstown, Ohio in 1885. The single...
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The End of the Line in Currie
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Dotson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Visiting Golden Gate
Lost Highway 61
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Enter Marlon Brando
The Church of the Holy Cross
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Little Falls Depot
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Wasioja
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Endion School In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
District 48 School Near Delano
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Oxford Mill Ruin
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Remembering Quadna Resort
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Almelund Creamery
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Green Lake Mounds
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Moving Old Hibbing
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Old Brewery In Preston
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Cobden
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Milford Monument
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Little Marais Inn
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome to Hanska
Almond White and the Motley Castle
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Franconia
The Old School In Wolverton
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...

