St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
Twin Cities Area
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
District #28 School in Ramsey
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Apartments
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Old Brewery In Preston
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Endion Depot In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Wasioja
Red Wing Iron Works
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Duluth Homestead Project
Jordan Brewery Complex
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lost Highway 61
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
State Theater In Hutchinson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Franconia
The End of the Line in Currie
Florence Town Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Little Marais Inn
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Remembering Quadna Resort
Meyer School In St Augusta
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
District 6 School in New Sweden
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bend in the River Regional Park
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Ottawa
Enter Marlon Brando
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Little Falls Depot
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Green Lake Mounds
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hanover Bridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Endion School In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
District 48 School Near Delano
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Cobden
Moving Old Hibbing
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
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...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central 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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

