Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the stateโs empire builders, St. Paulโs elite built their...
Twin Cities Area
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wilder Public Baths
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Townhomes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
This old stone chapel was built at the Sunrise Funeral Home and Cemetery in 1949. Located in...
State Theater In Hutchinson
The State Theater in Hutchinson, Minnesota, opened its doors on December 28, 1937. Customers paid...
The Church of the Holy Cross
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Cobden
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Moving Old Hibbing
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Green Lake Mounds
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
The Milford Monument
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The End of the Line in Currie
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Sandstone
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hanover Bridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Red Wing Iron Works
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Franconia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Little Marais Inn
District 48 School Near Delano
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Almelund Creamery
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Old Wadena
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lost Highway 61
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
District 6 School in New Sweden
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bend in the River Regional Park
Florence Town Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Oxford Mill Ruin
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Incline Railway
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion School In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
Enter Marlon Brando
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Dotson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Old School In Wolverton
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
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?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who donโt...

