Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Twin Cities Area
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Today, The Blaisdell is a wedding and event venue with cozy places to gather with your nearest and...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Saint Paul Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
District #28 School in Ramsey
Robbinsdale Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Apartments
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Greater Minnesota
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
For several years, Tenney held the distinction of being Minnesota’s smallest town. The 2010 census...
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Old Brewery In Preston
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Little Falls Depot
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Moderne New Ulm Library
Visiting Golden Gate
The Le Sueur Theater
The End of the Line in Currie
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
District 48 School Near Delano
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Endion School In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Moving Old Hibbing
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Green Lake Mounds
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Milford Monument
Welcome to Hanska
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome To Cobden
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Little Marais Inn
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Almelund Creamery
The Church of the Holy Cross
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Franconia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring Sandstone
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Meyer School In St Augusta
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia 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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
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...

