Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Twin Cities Area
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School opened in Minneapolis in 1932. The school was named after Mary...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wilder Public Baths
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Apartments
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Townhomes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Scottish immigrant James G Craigie settled in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, along with his wife...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Franconia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Little Falls Depot
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lost Highway 61
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Enter Marlon Brando
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bend in the River Regional Park
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hanover Bridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Little Marais Inn
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Sandstone
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
State Theater In Hutchinson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Green Lake Mounds
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Old Wadena
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome to Hanska
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Milford Monument
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Dotson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Endion School In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Florence Town Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Endion Depot In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Wasioja
Visiting Golden Gate
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The End of the Line in Currie
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Old School In Wolverton
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Ottawa
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
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...

