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...
The Swinford Apartments
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Eight Days in May Protests
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wilder Public Baths
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Robbinsdale Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
At around 3:30 p.m. on February 5, 1924, the most devastating mining disaster in Minnesota history...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Travelers come upon the Stewart Creek stone-arch bridge in a bend of an unpaved section of Skyline...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Franconia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Little Marais Inn
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Wasioja
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Milford Monument
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood Town Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome to Hanska
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Remembering Quadna Resort
District 48 School Near Delano
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Le Sueur Theater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bend in the River Regional Park
Endion Depot In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Old Brewery In Preston
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Cobden
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Moving Old Hibbing
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Florence Town Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taylor House In Le Sueur
State Theater In Hutchinson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Sandstone
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Finding The Past In Swatara
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Visiting Golden Gate
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...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
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 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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
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...

