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 Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George H. Christian was a manager at the Washburn-Crosby Company in Minneapolis who worked out a...
Robbinsdale Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Apartments
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Greater Minnesota
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Vermont-native Almond A. White came to Minnesota after the Civil War and settled in Brainerd for a...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Ok, stick with me here. Can you remember how your elementary school smelled? I can. Vividly. A hint...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Old Brewery In Preston
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome to Hanska
Lost Highway 61
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Florence Town Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Old Wadena
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Ottawa
Remembering Quadna Resort
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Oxford Mill Ruin
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
The End of the Line in Currie
The Milford Monument
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Duluth Homestead Project
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Green Lake Mounds
Visiting Golden Gate
Ruins of Sawyer School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Little Falls Depot
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hollywood Town Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Endion School In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Sandstone
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Red Wing Iron Works
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Enter Marlon Brando
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Le Sueur Theater
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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 Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

