Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
District #28 School in Ramsey
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Visiting Golden Gate
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Franconia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Little Falls Depot
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hanover Bridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Moving Old Hibbing
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Ottawa
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome To Old Wadena
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Duluth Homestead Project
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Milford Monument
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lost Highway 61
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lundring Service Station in Canby
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Oxford Mill Ruin
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Wasioja
The Le Sueur Theater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
District 6 School in New Sweden
Florence Town Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bend in the River Regional Park
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Enter Marlon Brando
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moderne New Ulm Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
State Theater In Hutchinson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome to Hanska
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...

