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...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of Food
Betty Crocker was born in a boardroom of The Washburn-Crosby Company of Minneapolis in 1921. A...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Eight Days in May Protests
District #28 School in Ramsey
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Greater Minnesota
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Chisago County State Bank was built in Center City in 1915. In August 1925, more than 60...
Welcome To Cobden
Cobden, Minnesota, was incorporated in 1905. The little railroad town included a bank, creamery...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Red Wing Iron Works
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Franconia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Green Lake Mounds
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lost Highway 61
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Old Brewery In Preston
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Little Falls Depot
Florence Town Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Le Sueur Theater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Church of the Holy Cross
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Old School In Wolverton
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hanover Bridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
District 48 School Near Delano
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
State Theater In Hutchinson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Almelund Creamery
The Milford Monument
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Endion Depot In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Sandstone
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Little Marais Inn
The End of the Line in Currie
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Finding The Past In Swatara
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bend in the River Regional Park
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome to Hanska
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 6 School in New Sweden
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Moving Old Hibbing
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

