Built in 1913, the Charles and Grace Parker House was designed by the nationally-prominent Prairie...
Twin Cities Area
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Robbinsdale Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Landmark Center In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Greater Minnesota
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Scottish immigrant James G Craigie settled in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, along with his wife...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
In 1957, trucks loaded with prefabricated homes rolled along Highway 61 toward a new building site...
Green Lake Mounds
Endion Depot In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Church of the Holy Cross
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Wasioja
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Little Falls Depot
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lost Highway 61
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Almond White and the Motley Castle
District 6 School in New Sweden
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Duluth Homestead Project
The End of the Line in Currie
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Ottawa
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood Town Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Old School In Wolverton
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Little Marais Inn
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Cobden
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Sandstone
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Milford Monument
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Old Brewery In Preston
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Almelund Creamery
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Moving Old Hibbing
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Meyer School In St Augusta
Moderne New Ulm Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Le Sueur Theater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

