It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
Twin Cities Area
Wilder Public Baths
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg and his wife Dora were the owners of a jewelry store in downtown Minneapolis in the...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
District #28 School in Ramsey
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Landmark Center In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Robbinsdale Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Arthur Orr was a 286’ steel package freighter built by the Chicago Ship Building Company. She...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Franconia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Old Brewery In Preston
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hollywood Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Milford Monument
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Enter Marlon Brando
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Little Marais Inn
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Ruins of Sawyer School
District 6 School in New Sweden
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Florence Town Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Almelund Creamery
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bend in the River Regional Park
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Old Wadena
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Meyer School In St Augusta
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Wasioja
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lost Highway 61
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Visiting Golden Gate
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Endion School In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hanover Bridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Old School In Wolverton
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
State Theater In Hutchinson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Endion Depot In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Duluth Homestead Project
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Dotson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...

