St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
Twin Cities Area
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The first branch library in the Minneapolis Public Library system was built in 1893-1894 and is one...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Eight Days in May Protests
Robbinsdale Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wilder Public Baths
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Townhomes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Shortly after midnight on November 28, 1905, the Crescent City dropped anchor in 90-feet of water...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
Enter Marlon Brando
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Visiting Golden Gate
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Moderne New Ulm Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Le Sueur Theater
Hanover Bridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Little Falls Depot
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Franconia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome to Hanska
District 48 School Near Delano
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Milford Monument
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Cobden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Green Lake Mounds
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Endion School In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Sandstone
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Old Brewery In Preston
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Almelund Creamery
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Ottawa
Red Wing Iron Works
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Church of the Holy Cross
District 6 School in New Sweden
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Meyer School In St Augusta
Moving Old Hibbing
The Little Marais Inn
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Endion Depot In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
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...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
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...

