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
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
The Swinford Townhomes
Robbinsdale Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Apartments
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Greater Minnesota
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
In 1929, the Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge was established in Lanesboro, Minnesota. Membership...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State Hospital
In 1873, the State of Minnesota was looking for a way to house an increasingly problematic group of...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
State Theater In Hutchinson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Milford Monument
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Duluth Homestead Project
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lost Highway 61
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Brewery In Preston
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Ottawa
The Almelund Creamery
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Endion School In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Remembering Quadna Resort
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hollywood Town Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome to Hanska
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Moving Old Hibbing
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Dotson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Oxford Mill Ruin
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Franconia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Old Wadena
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Sandstone
Almond White and the Motley Castle
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Cobden
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
District 48 School Near Delano
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Florence Town Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Visiting Golden Gate
The Little Marais Inn
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...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

