Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Twin Cities Area
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Eight Days in May Protests
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Townhomes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Park Terrace was an opulent building of Victorian townhouses located on a steep hill just off of...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Donald and Carrie Balfour house in Rochester, Minnesota, is a lovely example of how an Arts and...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
The Almelund Creamery
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
District 48 School Near Delano
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lincoln Park In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Visiting Golden Gate
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Green Lake Mounds
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Florence Town Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Franconia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Cobden
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Wasioja
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Sandstone
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Little Falls Depot
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hanover Bridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Endion School In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moderne New Ulm Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Ottawa
Endion Depot In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hollywood Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
The Old School In Wolverton
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Old Wadena
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Red Wing Iron Works
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lost Highway 61
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Little Marais Inn
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Church of the Holy Cross
Jordan Brewery Complex
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome to Hanska
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Enter Marlon Brando
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Old Brewery In Preston
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
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...

