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
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Names like Louis Comfort Tiffany and Gustav Stickley are well rooted in many American’s minds as...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Apartments
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
District #28 School in Ramsey
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
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...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rumors of copper riches hidden in the North Shore's streams and hillsides had excited the...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The End of the Line in Currie
Meyer School In St Augusta
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Florence Town Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Wasioja
Ruins of Sawyer School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Visiting Golden Gate
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Jordan Brewery Complex
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Sandstone
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hollywood Town Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Little Falls Depot
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Endion School In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Little Marais Inn
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Milford Monument
Exploring Ottawa
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lost Highway 61
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hanover Bridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Dotson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Almelund Creamery
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Enter Marlon Brando
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Old Brewery In Preston
Moderne New Ulm Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Franconia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
District 6 School in New Sweden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

