Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Twin Cities Area
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
The Swinford Apartments
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Eight Days in May Protests
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Greater Minnesota
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Memories are made at the lake. Whether you’re lucky enough to go every weekend in the summer...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
State Theater In Hutchinson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Duluth Homestead Project
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Sandstone
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Old School In Wolverton
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Almelund Creamery
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Old Wadena
District 48 School Near Delano
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Dotson
Moderne New Ulm Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Oxford Mill Ruin
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Church of the Holy Cross
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Moving Old Hibbing
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Meyer School In St Augusta
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Little Marais Inn
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hollywood Town Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Ottawa
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Remembering Quadna Resort
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Ruins of Sawyer School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lost Highway 61
Enter Marlon Brando
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Finding The Past In Swatara
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
Old Brewery In Preston
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Florence Town Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Endion Depot In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The End of the Line in Currie
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
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 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
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...

