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...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The St Paul Hotel has been the backbone of charm and elegance in downtown St Paul since it opened...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wilder Public Baths
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Landmark Center In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Meyer School In St Augusta
The original District 35 (Meyer) school was a log structure built around 1868. As the population of...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
District 48 School Near Delano
Old Brewery In Preston
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Church of the Holy Cross
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Little Falls Depot
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Wasioja
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Florence Town Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bend in the River Regional Park
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Green Lake Mounds
The Duluth Homestead Project
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Red Wing Iron Works
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Remembering Quadna Resort
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Endion School In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Le Sueur Theater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Little Marais Inn
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Sandstone
Finding The Past In Swatara
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Dotson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Franconia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The End of the Line in Currie
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Ruins of Sawyer School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
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...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

