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...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Apartments
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Robbinsdale Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Townhomes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gates of Stonebridge
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wilder Public Baths
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Minnesota Home School for Girls was established by the state legislature in 1907 as a...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
In 1929, the Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge was established in Lanesboro, Minnesota. Membership...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion School In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Hanover Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The End of the Line in Currie
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Red Wing Iron Works
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Dotson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Visiting Golden Gate
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Milford Monument
The Le Sueur Theater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome To Cobden
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Oxford Mill Ruin
Remembering Quadna Resort
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Jordan Brewery Complex
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Franconia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
District 48 School Near Delano
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Moving Old Hibbing
Old Brewery In Preston
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Wasioja
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Meyer School In St Augusta
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hollywood Town Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Florence Town Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Old School In Wolverton
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Ottawa
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central 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 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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

