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...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg and his wife Dora were the owners of a jewelry store in downtown Minneapolis in the...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Apartments
Wilder Public Baths
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Eight Days in May Protests
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Women’s City Club In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
Moving Old Hibbing
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Incline Railway
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Le Sueur Theater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Duluth Homestead Project
Endion School In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Little Falls Depot
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Little Marais Inn
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome to Hanska
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Dotson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Enter Marlon Brando
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Milford Monument
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Wasioja
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Franconia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
The End of the Line in Currie
Finding The Past In Swatara
Florence Town Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Red Wing Iron Works
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
District 6 School in New Sweden
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Visiting Golden Gate
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Old Wadena
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

