Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Robbinsdale Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wilder Public Baths
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Apartments
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Greater Minnesota
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
September 24, 1909 At 4:20 a.m., an off-duty worker at the Fergus Falls City Light Station woke up...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Milford Monument
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Moving Old Hibbing
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Endion Depot In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Sandstone
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hanover Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
The Church of the Holy Cross
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome to Hanska
Florence Town Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Little Marais Inn
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Remembering Quadna Resort
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lost Highway 61
Historic Wasioja
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Old School In Wolverton
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Oxford Mill Ruin
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Finding The Past In Swatara
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Ottawa
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Franconia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Little Falls Depot
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Green Lake Mounds
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome To Cobden
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Moderne New Ulm Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Old Brewery In Preston
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
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
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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