University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
Twin Cities Area
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
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...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Women’s City Club In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wilder Public Baths
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
In 1909, just eight years after this school was built in Sandstone, lightning struck. Sadly, the...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Red Wing Iron Works
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Little Marais Inn
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Moderne New Ulm Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Meyer School In St Augusta
Green Lake Mounds
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hanover Bridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Sandstone
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Milford Monument
State Theater In Hutchinson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Old Brewery In Preston
Florence Town Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The End of the Line in Currie
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome to Hanska
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Dotson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Endion School In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Le Sueur Theater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Moving Old Hibbing
Lost Highway 61
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Franconia
Exploring Ottawa
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Ruins of Sawyer School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Church of the Holy Cross
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Visiting Golden Gate
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Cobden
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac 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 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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

