As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
Twin Cities Area
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Construction on the Hamm Building in downtown St Paul began in 1915 and was completed in 1920. The...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wilder Public Baths
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Saint Paul Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Robbinsdale Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Greater Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Early settler and local banker Edson Smith built this French Second Empire style home for his...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Old Brewery In Preston
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Cobden
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hanover Bridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Old Wadena
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Endion School In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Little Falls Depot
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Church of the Holy Cross
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Meyer School In St Augusta
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Milford Monument
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Finding The Past In Swatara
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Red Wing Iron Works
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Ottawa
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Taylor House In Le Sueur
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The End of the Line in Currie
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Randall Cooperative Creamery
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Little Marais Inn
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bend in the River Regional Park
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
District 48 School Near Delano
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Visiting Golden Gate
Florence Town Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lost Highway 61
Historic Franconia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Enter Marlon Brando
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hollywood Town Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Ruins of Sawyer School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

