In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis was founded in 1907 by 39 of the city’s most influential women.This...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Townhomes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wilder Public Baths
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
The Almelund Creamery
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Green Lake Mounds
Red Wing Iron Works
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Oxford Mill Ruin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring Sandstone
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Visiting Golden Gate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome to Hanska
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Moving Old Hibbing
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Finding The Past In Swatara
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Ottawa
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Endion School In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lost Highway 61
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
District 6 School in New Sweden
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Church of the Holy Cross
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Old School In Wolverton
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Old Brewery In Preston
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Enter Marlon Brando
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Little Falls Depot
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Little Marais Inn
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Wasioja
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Dotson
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The End of the Line in Currie
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Milford Monument
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hanover Bridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...

