Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gates of Stonebridge
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Landmark Center In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Robbinsdale Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Apartments
Women’s City Club In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George Neuwirth operated a popular bowling alley and bar throughout the 1930s and 1940s in New Ulm...
District 48 School Near Delano
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Enter Marlon Brando
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Sandstone
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
District 6 School in New Sweden
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hanover Bridge
Little Falls Depot
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Ruins of Sawyer School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hollywood Town Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Le Sueur Theater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Wasioja
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The End of the Line in Currie
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Franconia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Green Lake Mounds
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Cobden
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
State Theater In Hutchinson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome to Hanska
Oxford Mill Ruin
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Milford Monument
Exploring Ottawa
Lost Highway 61
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Red Wing Iron Works
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Little Marais Inn
Endion School In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

