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...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis was one of the rare mills in the city that had four finished...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Saint Paul Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gates of Stonebridge
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wilder Public Baths
Greater Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
William J Mayo was the older of the two Mayo brothers who, along with five partners, founded the...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hanover Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Enter Marlon Brando
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Green Lake Mounds
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Le Sueur Theater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hollywood Town Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Little Marais Inn
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Finding The Past In Swatara
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering Quadna Resort
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Cobden
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lost Highway 61
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Dotson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion School In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Visiting Golden Gate
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Church of the Holy Cross
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Franconia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Ruins of Sawyer School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Old School In Wolverton
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Sandstone
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome to Hanska
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Moving Old Hibbing
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Almelund Creamery
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Milford Monument
Florence Town Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Ottawa
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
District 6 School in New Sweden
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
The Duluth Homestead Project
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

