Built between 1902 and 1904, this beautiful building on its shady lot served southeast Minneapolis...
Twin Cities Area
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Minneapolis has many beautiful homes, but the Gale mansion is easily one of my top three. I love...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Robbinsdale Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wilder Public Baths
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Townhomes
The Saint Paul Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Avenue, located on the east side of St. Cloud, became part of the Jefferson Highway system...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Milford Monument
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Endion School In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Franconia
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome to Hanska
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Red Wing Iron Works
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The End of the Line in Currie
Lost Highway 61
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hollywood Town Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Almelund Creamery
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Moderne New Ulm Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 6 School in New Sweden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
District 48 School Near Delano
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Daniel Piper House in Medford
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Church of the Holy Cross
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Ottawa
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Sandstone
The Little Marais Inn
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City