In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
Twin Cities Area
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Robbinsdale Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Wilder Public Baths
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Apartments
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
You can’t drive through Zumbrota, Minnesota, without stopping at the covered bridge. It’s located...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Wasioja
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bend in the River Regional Park
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Remembering Quadna Resort
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The End of the Line in Currie
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Franconia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Little Falls Depot
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Oxford Mill Ruin
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Ottawa
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Cobden
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Duluth Homestead Project
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Endion School In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lost Highway 61
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Florence Town Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Le Sueur Theater
Red Wing Iron Works
The Milford Monument
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Church of the Holy Cross
District 48 School Near Delano
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Moving Old Hibbing
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Sandstone
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City