The house at 193 N Mackubin in Saint Paul, Minnesota, was built in 1882. This Second Empire-style...
Twin Cities Area
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Eight Days in May Protests
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wilder Public Baths
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Apartments
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Hollywood Town Hall
The Carver County District Number 76 School was built in 1906 and opened for classes in the fall of...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Chisago County State Bank was built in Center City in 1915. In August 1925, more than 60...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Dotson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Green Lake Mounds
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Jordan Brewery Complex
Endion School In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Oxford Mill Ruin
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lost Highway 61
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Red Wing Iron Works
Old Brewery In Preston
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Franconia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Finding The Past In Swatara
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome to Hanska
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Ottawa
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hanover Bridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Almelund Creamery
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Enter Marlon Brando
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Florence Town Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Wasioja
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Meyer School In St Augusta
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
District 6 School in New Sweden
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

