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...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Apartments
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Townhomes
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wilder Public Baths
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Frederick E. Murphy was known as the publisher and guiding spirit of the Minneapolis Tribune...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
State Theater In Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Wasioja
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Ottawa
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Little Falls Depot
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bend in the River Regional Park
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Milford Monument
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Old School In Wolverton
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Green Lake Mounds
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Endion Depot In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Munger Terrace In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hanover Bridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Moving Old Hibbing
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Franconia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Le Sueur Theater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The End of the Line in Currie
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Oxford Mill Ruin
Old Brewery In Preston
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hollywood Town Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Enter Marlon Brando
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome to Hanska
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Cobden
Meyer School In St Augusta
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Finding The Past In Swatara
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Little Marais Inn
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Old Wadena
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Florence Town Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
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...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...

