As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
Twin Cities Area
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Townhomes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Robbinsdale Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Eight Days in May Protests
Greater Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Daniel Piper came to Minnesota from New Hampshire with his wife and daughter in early 1877...
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...
Hollywood Town Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
State Theater In Hutchinson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Florence Town Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Dotson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The End of the Line in Currie
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Almelund Creamery
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Ottawa
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Wasioja
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Little Marais Inn
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Red Wing Iron Works
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Endion Depot In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Cobden
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hanover Bridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Franconia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Oxford Mill Ruin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Old Wadena
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Old Brewery In Preston
District 6 School in New Sweden
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bend in the River Regional Park
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

