The house at 193 N Mackubin in Saint Paul, Minnesota, was built in 1882. This Second Empire-style...
Twin Cities Area
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wilder Public Baths
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Saint Paul Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Greater Minnesota
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Oxford Mill was located on the bank of the Little Cannon River near Cannon Falls. When the mill...
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...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion School In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Little Marais Inn
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Dotson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Old Brewery In Preston
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The End of the Line in Currie
Florence Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Almelund Creamery
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Old Wadena
Enter Marlon Brando
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Milford Monument
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Little Falls Depot
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Cobden
Visiting Golden Gate
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lundring Service Station in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome to Hanska
District 48 School Near Delano
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Franconia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Wasioja
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Red Wing Iron Works
The Duluth Homestead Project
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Meyer School In St Augusta
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Moving Old Hibbing
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hanover Bridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown