Names like Louis Comfort Tiffany and Gustav Stickley are well rooted in many American’s minds as...
Twin Cities Area
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
District #28 School in Ramsey
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
District 6 School in New Sweden
The District 6 school in New Sweden Township stands in a field surrounded by tall stalks of corn in...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Englanders who settled in the St Croix Valley were drawn there because of the thick, wild...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Dotson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Visiting Golden Gate
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Franconia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Cobden
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lost Highway 61
Hollywood Town Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
State Theater In Hutchinson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Meyer School In St Augusta
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Green Lake Mounds
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Little Marais Inn
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hanover Bridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Florence Town Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moving Old Hibbing
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Milford Monument
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion School In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Little Falls Depot
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Brewery In Preston
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
District 48 School Near Delano
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Jordan Brewery Complex
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Sandstone
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Enter Marlon Brando
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The End of the Line in Currie
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Almelund Creamery
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Old School In Wolverton
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Red Wing Iron Works
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

