Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
The Swinford Townhomes
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
District #28 School in Ramsey
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Robbinsdale Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Greater Minnesota
Lost Highway 61
History buffs and curiosity seekers revel in finding a piece of the past. Stumbling across...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Vermont-native Almond A. White came to Minnesota after the Civil War and settled in Brainerd for a...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bend in the River Regional Park
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Sandstone
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
District 48 School Near Delano
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Moderne New Ulm Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Moving Old Hibbing
The Church of the Holy Cross
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Oxford Mill Ruin
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Little Marais Inn
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Wasioja
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Cobden
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Dotson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Green Lake Mounds
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
State Theater In Hutchinson
Visiting Golden Gate
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Florence Town Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Almelund Creamery
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Endion School In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Milford Monument
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Duluth Homestead Project
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Franconia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Le Sueur Theater
Ruins of Sawyer School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Old School In Wolverton
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Old Wadena
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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