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
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Robbinsdale Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Landmark Center In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Endion School In Duluth
The Endion School in Duluth, Minnesota, was built in 1890. The architect who designed the three...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Jordan Brewery Complex
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The End of the Line in Currie
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Old Brewery In Preston
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Little Marais Inn
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Ruins of Sawyer School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Green Lake Mounds
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Milford Monument
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome to Hanska
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Remembering Quadna Resort
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Ottawa
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Wandering Around The Toimi School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Enter Marlon Brando
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
State Theater In Hutchinson
District 48 School Near Delano
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lost Highway 61
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Visiting Golden Gate
Finding The Past In Swatara
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Dotson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hanover Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Wasioja
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Franconia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Florence Town Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Sandstone
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Red Wing Iron Works
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Cobden
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Moderne New Ulm Library
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Old Wadena
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
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...

