The Lustron homes along Nicollet Avenue near 50th Street S in Minneapolis are among nearly 2,500 of...
Twin Cities Area
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Lowry Hotel opened in 1927 and was 12 floors of pure glamour. An addition was made in 1930 to...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Landmark Center In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wilder Public Baths
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Avenue, located on the east side of St. Cloud, became part of the Jefferson Highway system...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Red Wing Iron Works
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Enter Marlon Brando
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Sandstone
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Dotson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Milford Monument
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
District 6 School in New Sweden
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Green Lake Mounds
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bend in the River Regional Park
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Cobden
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Almelund Creamery
The End of the Line in Currie
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Finding The Past In Swatara
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Wasioja
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Duluth Homestead Project
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Endion School In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
District 48 School Near Delano
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
State Theater In Hutchinson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome to Hanska
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Ottawa
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Old Wadena
Little Falls Depot
Moving Old Hibbing
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Little Marais Inn
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lost Highway 61
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Church of the Holy Cross
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital 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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
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...

