If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
Twin Cities Area
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Horatio Alden Smith made the bulk of his fortune as the co-owner of the Smith and Wyman Sash and...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Robbinsdale Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bend in the River Regional Park
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Milford Monument
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Franconia
Endion School In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The End of the Line in Currie
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Red Wing Iron Works
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Le Sueur Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome to Hanska
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Green Lake Mounds
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lost Highway 61
The Almelund Creamery
Florence Town Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Old Wadena
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Enter Marlon Brando
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Dotson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Wasioja
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hollywood Town Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hanover Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Sandstone
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Ottawa
Finding The Past In Swatara
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
District 48 School Near Delano
Little Falls Depot
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn 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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
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...

