This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
Twin Cities Area
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Townhomes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Apartments
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gates of Stonebridge
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
District #28 School in Ramsey
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Robbinsdale Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Welcome To Cobden
Cobden, Minnesota, was incorporated in 1905. The little railroad town included a bank, creamery...
Meyer School In St Augusta
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Ottawa
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Sandstone
The End of the Line in Currie
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Little Marais Inn
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Little Falls Depot
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Dotson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Enter Marlon Brando
The Duluth Homestead Project
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Endion School In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
District 6 School in New Sweden
Endion Depot In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Milford Monument
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Green Lake Mounds
Lost Highway 61
Taylor House In Le Sueur
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Franconia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hanover Bridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Ruins of Sawyer School
Visiting Golden Gate
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hollywood Town Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Old Brewery In Preston
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Le Sueur Theater
District 48 School Near Delano
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

