As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
Twin Cities Area
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Saint Paul Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Townhomes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Greater Minnesota
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Vermont-native Almond A. White came to Minnesota after the Civil War and settled in Brainerd for a...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The George and Charlotte Crosby house is located just a few blocks east of downtown Duluth...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Enter Marlon Brando
Lost Highway 61
The Church of the Holy Cross
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Duluth Homestead Project
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
District 48 School Near Delano
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Almelund Creamery
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Ottawa
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Old School In Wolverton
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Franconia
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Wasioja
Remembering Quadna Resort
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Dotson
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Old Brewery In Preston
The End of the Line in Currie
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Visiting Golden Gate
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Cobden
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Old Wadena
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Green Lake Mounds
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Red Wing Iron Works
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Endion School In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Moving Old Hibbing
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Little Falls Depot
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Dead Good Walks
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...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
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...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

