The Washburn water tower sits on a hill in the heart of the Washburn Park (commonly known as...
Twin Cities Area
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s Guardians of Health
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Apartments
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Robbinsdale Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Greater Minnesota
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
For several years, Tenney held the distinction of being Minnesota’s smallest town. The 2010 census...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Munger Terrace has been a landmark in Duluth’s Central Hillside neighborhood since the building was...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood Town Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Endion Depot In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hanover Bridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Franconia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Little Marais Inn
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Milford Monument
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Red Wing Iron Works
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Meyer School In St Augusta
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Green Lake Mounds
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bend in the River Regional Park
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Finding The Past In Swatara
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Little Falls Depot
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Almelund Creamery
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Oxford Mill Ruin
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Florence Town Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Cobden
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Le Sueur Theater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Old School In Wolverton
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Endion School In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
The Duluth Homestead Project
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome to Hanska
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Wasioja
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Moving Old Hibbing
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Church of the Holy Cross
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
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 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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
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...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

