If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
Twin Cities Area
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
This beauty was built in 1914 and is St Paul’s largest Prairie Style house at just under 3,000...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Saint Paul Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Apartments
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wilder Public Baths
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
Little Falls Depot
Construction started on the railroad depot in Little Falls in 1899. It was designed by Cass Gilbert...
Welcome To Cobden
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hanover Bridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Green Lake Mounds
Enter Marlon Brando
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Visiting Golden Gate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Sandstone
The End of the Line in Currie
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
District 6 School in New Sweden
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Old Brewery In Preston
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Old School In Wolverton
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Endion Depot In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Franconia
The Little Marais Inn
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Dotson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Almelund Creamery
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Moving Old Hibbing
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Milford Monument
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Moderne New Ulm Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lost Highway 61
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Le Sueur Theater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
District 48 School Near Delano
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood Town Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Duluth Homestead Project
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bend in the River Regional Park
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
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...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City