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
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wilder Public Baths
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
District #28 School in Ramsey
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Robbinsdale Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Apartments
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to one of the most awe-inspiring buildings in Minnesota. It’s big. It’s...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Le Sueur Theater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Green Lake Mounds
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Ottawa
The Old School In Wolverton
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Dotson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Church of the Holy Cross
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Visiting Golden Gate
Hanover Bridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Munger Terrace In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Ruins of Sawyer School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Hollywood Town Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Cobden
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Endion School In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
The Almelund Creamery
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Milford Monument
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Welcome to Hanska
Enter Marlon Brando
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Red Wing Iron Works
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Oxford Mill Ruin
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
State Theater In Hutchinson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Jordan Brewery Complex
Little Falls Depot
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

