St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
Twin Cities Area
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wilder Public Baths
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Townhomes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Saint Paul Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Apartments
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Robbinsdale Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
District 48 School Near Delano
It really hurts to see this old schoolhouse so neglected 😟 The Franklin Township (Minnesota)...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The George and Charlotte Crosby house is located just a few blocks east of downtown Duluth...
Endion Depot In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Little Marais Inn
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Moving Old Hibbing
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Moderne New Ulm Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Wasioja
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood Town Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Ruins of Sawyer School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
State Theater In Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Duluth Homestead Project
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Visiting Golden Gate
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Old Brewery In Preston
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome to Hanska
Florence Town Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Little Falls Depot
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Dotson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lost Highway 61
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hanover Bridge
Historic Franconia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Endion School In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The End of the Line in Currie
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Green Lake Mounds
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Sandstone
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Jordan Brewery Complex
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate 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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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...

