Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Twin Cities Area
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Townhomes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Apartments
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
District #28 School in Ramsey
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Eight Days in May Protests
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Greater Minnesota
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
William J Mayo was the older of the two Mayo brothers who, along with five partners, founded the...
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Sandstone
The Le Sueur Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The End of the Line in Currie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hanover Bridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Dotson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Franconia
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Church of the Holy Cross
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Red Wing Iron Works
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Florence Town Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lost Highway 61
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Milford Monument
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Little Falls Depot
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Wasioja
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Enter Marlon Brando
Bend in the River Regional Park
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Old School In Wolverton
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome to Hanska
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Visiting Golden Gate
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Cobden
Endion Depot In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Old Brewery In Preston
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Almelund Creamery
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland 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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

