The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Twin Cities Area
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Eight Days in May Protests
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Apartments
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wilder Public Baths
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Greater Minnesota
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
This gorgeous Second Empire style home in Hastings was built for William Thompson in 1880. Thompson...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lincoln Park is 37 acres of space along Miller Creek in Duluth’s west end. Today, the park includes...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Enter Marlon Brando
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Visiting Golden Gate
Red Wing Iron Works
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Cobden
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Dotson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Little Falls Depot
Old Brewery In Preston
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Endion Depot In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Green Lake Mounds
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hollywood Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Moving Old Hibbing
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Ruins of Sawyer School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Milford Monument
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Le Sueur Theater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Ottawa
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome to Hanska
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Wasioja
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hanover Bridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Sandstone
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
State Theater In Hutchinson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Franconia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Old School In Wolverton
Finding The Past In Swatara
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Old Wadena
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
District 48 School Near Delano
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
District 6 School in New Sweden
The End of the Line in Currie
Remembering Quadna Resort
Dead Good Walks
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...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
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...

