As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
Twin Cities Area
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wilder Public Baths
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Robbinsdale Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gates of Stonebridge
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Townhomes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Greater Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Duluth Homestead Project
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Franconia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Enter Marlon Brando
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome to Hanska
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Old Brewery In Preston
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
District 6 School in New Sweden
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The End of the Line in Currie
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Cobden
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hanover Bridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Dotson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Almelund Creamery
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Visiting Golden Gate
Endion School In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Ruins of Sawyer School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Little Falls Depot
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Wasioja
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Le Sueur Theater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Oxford Mill Ruin
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hollywood Town Hall
The Milford Monument
Green Lake Mounds
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

