As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
Twin Cities Area
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School opened in Minneapolis in 1932. The school was named after Mary...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wilder Public Baths
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Townhomes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Cobden
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Brewery In Preston
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Finding The Past In Swatara
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
State Theater In Hutchinson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Little Marais Inn
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
District 48 School Near Delano
Green Lake Mounds
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Milford Monument
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Moderne New Ulm Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Wasioja
Jordan Brewery Complex
Red Wing Iron Works
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Visiting Golden Gate
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Franconia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Duluth Homestead Project
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Florence Town Hall
Endion School In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Le Sueur Theater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lost Highway 61
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Dotson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Old School In Wolverton
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Little Falls Depot
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
District 6 School in New Sweden
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

