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...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium was the first medical hospital in Anoka, Minnesota. Dr. James F. Kline opened the...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Townhomes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Apartments
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Ok, stick with me here. Can you remember how your elementary school smelled? I can. Vividly. A hint...
Jordan Brewery Complex
During the 1860s, Jordan had become an early industrial center in Scott County and brewing became...
Green Lake Mounds
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Visiting Golden Gate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Red Wing Iron Works
The Almelund Creamery
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Incline Railway
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Dotson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Moving Old Hibbing
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Le Sueur Theater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lost Highway 61
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Remembering Quadna Resort
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Franconia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Old School In Wolverton
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Florence Town Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Oxford Mill Ruin
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Hollywood Town Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Moderne New Ulm Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Munger Terrace In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome to Hanska
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Ottawa
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Milford Monument
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Church of the Holy Cross
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Ruins of Sawyer School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hanover Bridge
Enter Marlon Brando
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Old Brewery In Preston
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Little Falls Depot
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Dead Good Walks
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
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...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

