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...
Robbinsdale Library
The Robbinsdale Library opened its doors for the first time on January 4, 1926, thanks to the...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Townhomes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Wilder Public Baths
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Planning for a new road for stagecoach travel westward from the Mississippi began in the winter of...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Little Falls Depot
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Visiting Golden Gate
Meyer School In St Augusta
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome to Hanska
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 6 School in New Sweden
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Sandstone
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Enter Marlon Brando
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Le Sueur Theater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lost Highway 61
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Milford Monument
Hanover Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Franconia
The Little Marais Inn
Florence Town Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Oxford Mill Ruin
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Wasioja
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Bend in the River Regional Park
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Church of the Holy Cross
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Ruins of Sawyer School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Green Lake Mounds
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
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...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
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...

