The St Paul Hotel has been the backbone of charm and elegance in downtown St Paul since it opened...
Twin Cities Area
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Apartments
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Daniel Piper came to Minnesota from New Hampshire with his wife and daughter in early 1877...
Endion School In Duluth
The Endion School in Duluth, Minnesota, was built in 1890. The architect who designed the three...
Visiting Golden Gate
Moderne New Ulm Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
District 48 School Near Delano
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Oxford Mill Ruin
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Sandstone
The Old School In Wolverton
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome to Hanska
Enter Marlon Brando
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Ottawa
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Endion Depot In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bend in the River Regional Park
State Theater In Hutchinson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Florence Town Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Cobden
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Wasioja
Red Wing Iron Works
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Franconia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Milford Monument
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Old Brewery In Preston
The Little Marais Inn
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Dotson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Le Sueur Theater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Little Falls Depot
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hollywood Town Hall
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

