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...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Townhomes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Endion School In Duluth
The Endion School in Duluth, Minnesota, was built in 1890. The architect who designed the three...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Old Brewery In Preston
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Sandstone
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Duluth Homestead Project
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Finding The Past In Swatara
Endion Depot In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lost Highway 61
Meyer School In St Augusta
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Oxford Mill Ruin
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
District 48 School Near Delano
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Ottawa
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Green Lake Mounds
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Jordan Brewery Complex
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Wasioja
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Remembering Quadna Resort
Little Falls Depot
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Cobden
Hollywood Town Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Dotson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Milford Monument
The Little Marais Inn
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Church of the Holy Cross
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Old School In Wolverton
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

