Built between 1902 and 1904, this beautiful building on its shady lot served southeast Minneapolis...
Twin Cities Area
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Robbinsdale Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Townhomes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Women’s City Club In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Greater Minnesota
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to one of the most awe-inspiring buildings in Minnesota. It’s big. It’s...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Endion School In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Florence Town Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Green Lake Mounds
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Old School In Wolverton
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The End of the Line in Currie
Finding The Past In Swatara
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Meyer School In St Augusta
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lost Highway 61
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Ruins of Sawyer School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Remembering Quadna Resort
State Theater In Hutchinson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Oxford Mill Ruin
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Old Wadena
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Enter Marlon Brando
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Dotson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Exploring Sandstone
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Old Brewery In Preston
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Moving Old Hibbing
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Little Falls Depot
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Wasioja
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Duluth Homestead Project
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Visiting Golden Gate
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Almelund Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Cobden
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

