Located in Robbinsdale, the international-style Terrace Theatre opened on May 23, 1951. At the...
Twin Cities Area
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis was one of the rare mills in the city that had four finished...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Landmark Center In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Townhomes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Apartments
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Wilder Public Baths
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
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...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
This old stone chapel was built at the Sunrise Funeral Home and Cemetery in 1949. Located in...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Dotson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Little Falls Depot
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Old Brewery In Preston
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Endion Depot In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Daniel Piper House in Medford
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Old School In Wolverton
District 6 School in New Sweden
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bend in the River Regional Park
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
District 48 School Near Delano
Hanover Bridge
Endion School In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Almelund Creamery
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lost Highway 61
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Florence Town Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Oxford Mill Ruin
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Wasioja
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Red Wing Iron Works
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
The Le Sueur Theater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Ottawa
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Little Marais Inn
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Sandstone
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
State Theater In Hutchinson
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Almond White and the Motley Castle
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
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...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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