Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Twin Cities Area
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Construction on the Hamm Building in downtown St Paul began in 1915 and was completed in 1920. The...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Robbinsdale Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Greater Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
The Church of the Holy Cross
Red Wing Iron Works
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Wasioja
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Little Marais Inn
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Visiting Golden Gate
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Almelund Creamery
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
District 6 School in New Sweden
Enter Marlon Brando
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Sandstone
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Almond White and the Motley Castle
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
State Theater In Hutchinson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Florence Town Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Milford Monument
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Cobden
Green Lake Mounds
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Little Falls Depot
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Duluth Homestead Project
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome to Hanska
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Ottawa
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Dotson
The End of the Line in Currie
The Old School In Wolverton
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taylor House In Le Sueur
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Le Sueur Theater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Oxford Mill Ruin
Endion Depot In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
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 Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
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...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

