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 Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wilder Public Baths
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Jordan Brewery Complex
During the 1860s, Jordan had become an early industrial center in Scott County and brewing became...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
District 48 School Near Delano
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Dotson
Enter Marlon Brando
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Ottawa
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Endion School In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The New Ulm Company Service Station
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Le Sueur Theater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Church of the Holy Cross
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bend in the River Regional Park
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Meyer School In St Augusta
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome to Hanska
Ruins of Sawyer School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Moving Old Hibbing
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Wasioja
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Visiting Golden Gate
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Daniel Piper House in Medford
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Green Lake Mounds
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Florence Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Milford Monument
The Almelund Creamery
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Munger Terrace In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Little Falls Depot
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood Town Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Oxford Mill Ruin
Old Brewery In Preston
Endion Depot In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...

