Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Today, The Blaisdell is a wedding and event venue with cozy places to gather with your nearest and...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Eight Days in May Protests
Landmark Center In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Robbinsdale Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moving Old Hibbing
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Church of the Holy Cross
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Little Marais Inn
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Sandstone
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Milford Monument
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 6 School in New Sweden
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
State Theater In Hutchinson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Little Falls Depot
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Ottawa
The Old School In Wolverton
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Cobden
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hollywood Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Franconia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Jordan Brewery Complex
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Endion School In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bend in the River Regional Park
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Wasioja
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Dotson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome to Hanska
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hanover Bridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
District 48 School Near Delano
Red Wing Iron Works
The End of the Line in Currie
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Oxford Mill Ruin
Visiting Golden Gate
The Le Sueur Theater
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

