The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
Twin Cities Area
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Lustron homes along Nicollet Avenue near 50th Street S in Minneapolis are among nearly 2,500 of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Englanders who settled in the St Croix Valley were drawn there because of the thick, wild...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Church of the Holy Cross
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lost Highway 61
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Red Wing Iron Works
District 6 School in New Sweden
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Le Sueur Theater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Endion School In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Milford Monument
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hanover Bridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Wasioja
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Green Lake Mounds
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
District 48 School Near Delano
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Florence Town Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Sandstone
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Cobden
Bend in the River Regional Park
Visiting Golden Gate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Little Falls Depot
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The End of the Line in Currie
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome to Hanska
The Duluth Homestead Project
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Almelund Creamery
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
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...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

