In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
Twin Cities Area
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gates of Stonebridge
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Robbinsdale Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moderne New Ulm Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Milford Monument
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
The Little Marais Inn
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Red Wing Iron Works
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Finding The Past In Swatara
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hollywood Town Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Old School In Wolverton
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
District 48 School Near Delano
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Franconia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Old Wadena
Florence Town Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lost Highway 61
Bend in the River Regional Park
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Wasioja
The Almelund Creamery
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Cobden
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Dotson
Old Brewery In Preston
Little Falls Depot
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Visiting Golden Gate
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Endion School In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Duluth Homestead Project
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City 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 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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
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...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

