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...
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
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
District #28 School in Ramsey
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Scottish immigrant James G Craigie settled in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, along with his wife...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome to Hanska
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Old Brewery In Preston
The Milford Monument
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
District 6 School in New Sweden
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Almelund Creamery
The Le Sueur Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Enter Marlon Brando
Green Lake Mounds
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Wasioja
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Little Marais Inn
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Old Wadena
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
Daniel Piper House in Medford
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
State Theater In Hutchinson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lost Highway 61
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Little Falls Depot
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Cobden
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bend in the River Regional Park
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Visiting Golden Gate
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Old School In Wolverton
The Duluth Homestead Project
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The End of the Line in Currie
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Ottawa
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hollywood Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Red Wing Iron Works
Jordan Brewery Complex
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

