It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
Twin Cities Area
Wilder Public Baths
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Located in Robbinsdale, the international-style Terrace Theatre opened on May 23, 1951. At the...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Apartments
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gates of Stonebridge
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Robbinsdale Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Most of us wouldn’t consider a 13,000 square foot mansion situated on a six-acre wooded lot with...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Sandstone
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Ottawa
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Old Wadena
Ruins of Sawyer School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lost Highway 61
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Cobden
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome to Hanska
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hanover Bridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Green Lake Mounds
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Le Sueur Theater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Moving Old Hibbing
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Wasioja
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Almelund Creamery
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Jordan Brewery Complex
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
District 48 School Near Delano
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Franconia
The Old School In Wolverton
Florence Town Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Church of the Holy Cross
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Moderne New Ulm Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Red Wing Iron Works
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

