As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
Twin Cities Area
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Horatio Alden Smith made the bulk of his fortune as the co-owner of the Smith and Wyman Sash and...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wilder Public Baths
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Greater Minnesota
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The West Bridge in Madelia, Minnesota, was built in 1908. It is the earliest remaining example of a...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Little Falls Depot
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Visiting Golden Gate
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Jordan Brewery Complex
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Wasioja
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Green Lake Mounds
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Red Wing Iron Works
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Franconia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Oxford Mill Ruin
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Cobden
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Sandstone
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hanover Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
The Milford Monument
Taylor House In Le Sueur
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hollywood Town Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Florence Town Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Finding The Past In Swatara
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
District 48 School Near Delano
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Old Wadena
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Old School In Wolverton
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome to Hanska
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Ottawa
Moving Old Hibbing
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bend in the River Regional Park
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lost Highway 61
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...

