Constructed in 1897 for $13,000, the First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was designed...
Twin Cities Area
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Construction on the Hamm Building in downtown St Paul began in 1915 and was completed in 1920. The...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
District #28 School in Ramsey
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gates of Stonebridge
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Eight Days in May Protests
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Apartments
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Townhomes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Greater Minnesota
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Bally Blacksmith Shop opened in 1911 when Sam Bally left his job at a sawmill to open his own...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
Old Brewery In Preston
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Sandstone
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Franconia
Hanover Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lost Highway 61
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion School In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Green Lake Mounds
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Old School In Wolverton
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Florence Town Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Visiting Golden Gate
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Dotson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Endion Depot In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Red Wing Iron Works
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Moving Old Hibbing
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Oxford Mill Ruin
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Wasioja
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
District 6 School in New Sweden
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Milford Monument
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Remembering Quadna Resort
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Meyer School In St Augusta
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Almelund Creamery
The Church of the Holy Cross
Little Falls Depot
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood Town Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Moderne New Ulm Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s 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 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

