The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
Twin Cities Area
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
It may have been luck that spared the Colonnade Hotel the same fate as so many other old downtown...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Townhomes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Robbinsdale Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Apartments
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gates of Stonebridge
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wilder Public Baths
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
This gorgeous Second Empire style home in Hastings was built for William Thompson in 1880. Thompson...
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
The Little Marais Inn
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Brewery In Preston
Finding The Past In Swatara
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Florence Town Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering Quadna Resort
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
District 48 School Near Delano
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Little Falls Depot
Visiting Golden Gate
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Old Wadena
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Franconia
Endion Depot In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
District 6 School in New Sweden
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lincoln Park In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Endion School In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Moderne New Ulm Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Duluth Homestead Project
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome to Hanska
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Dotson
Enter Marlon Brando
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
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...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

