University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
Twin Cities Area
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis was one of the rare mills in the city that had four finished...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Chisago County State Bank was built in Center City in 1915. In August 1925, more than 60...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Almond White and the Motley Castle
State Theater In Hutchinson
Moving Old Hibbing
Moderne New Ulm Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Enter Marlon Brando
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Wasioja
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Old Wadena
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Le Sueur Theater
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Almelund Creamery
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Ottawa
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The End of the Line in Currie
Hanover Bridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Old Brewery In Preston
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Milford Monument
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome to Hanska
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Little Falls Depot
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Visiting Golden Gate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Little Marais Inn
Lost Highway 61
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Dotson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Florence Town Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland 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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

