As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
Twin Cities Area
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little was a partner in a Minneapolis-based real estate firm. He didn’t leave behind much...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
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...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Lost Highway 61
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Little Falls Depot
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The End of the Line in Currie
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hanover Bridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
District 48 School Near Delano
Hollywood Town Hall
The Milford Monument
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Church of the Holy Cross
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
District 6 School in New Sweden
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Finding The Past In Swatara
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Green Lake Mounds
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Red Wing Iron Works
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Little Marais Inn
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Franconia
The Old School In Wolverton
Meyer School In St Augusta
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Duluth Homestead Project
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Cobden
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Enter Marlon Brando
Moderne New Ulm Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Florence Town Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
State Theater In Hutchinson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Dotson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Incline Railway
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

