In 1899, the Twin City Rapid Transit Company extended its reach of their streetcars to the...
Twin Cities Area
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
District #28 School in Ramsey
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Saint Paul Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Townhomes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Greater Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Moderne New Ulm Library
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting Golden Gate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Finding The Past In Swatara
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hanover Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Enter Marlon Brando
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
District 6 School in New Sweden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Almelund Creamery
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Red Wing Iron Works
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Remembering Quadna Resort
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Ottawa
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
District 48 School Near Delano
The Milford Monument
Oxford Mill Ruin
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
State Theater In Hutchinson
Old Brewery In Preston
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Ruins of Sawyer School
Moving Old Hibbing
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Sandstone
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Little Marais Inn
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Welcome to Hanska
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Endion School In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lost Highway 61
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The End of the Line in Currie
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Church of the Holy Cross
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Florence Town Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Meyer School In St Augusta
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Cobden
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac 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 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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

