Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Twin Cities Area
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles G. Jackson immigrated to the U.S. and purchased the Anoka House, the oldest hotel in Anoka...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Greater Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two weeks after the James–Younger Gang raided Northfield the gang appeared at the farm of Ole...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Sandstone
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Church of the Holy Cross
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Milford Monument
Historic Franconia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Hanover Bridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
State Theater In Hutchinson
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The End of the Line in Currie
Little Falls Depot
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Almelund Creamery
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lost Highway 61
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Cobden
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Ottawa
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Endion Depot In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Remembering Quadna Resort
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hollywood Town Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Visiting Golden Gate
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
District 48 School Near Delano
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Oxford Mill Ruin
Florence Town Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Meyer School In St Augusta
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Endion School In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Wasioja
District 6 School in New Sweden
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
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...

