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