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...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
It may have been luck that spared the Colonnade Hotel the same fate as so many other old downtown...
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Robbinsdale Library
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Englanders who settled in the St Croix Valley were drawn there because of the thick, wild...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Historic Wasioja
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The End of the Line in Currie
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hollywood Town Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Moving Old Hibbing
The Little Marais Inn
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Little Falls Depot
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Moderne New Ulm Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
District 6 School in New Sweden
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Old Brewery In Preston
Hanover Bridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
District 48 School Near Delano
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Le Sueur Theater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lost Highway 61
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Church of the Holy Cross
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Visiting Golden Gate
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Cobden
The Milford Monument
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Franconia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Ottawa
The Duluth Homestead Project
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome to Hanska
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Ruins of Sawyer School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Almelund Creamery
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
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...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

