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...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Robbinsdale Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Landmark Center In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Townhomes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
District #28 School in Ramsey
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wilder Public Baths
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Old Brewery In Preston
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Finding The Past In Swatara
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
District 48 School Near Delano
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Enter Marlon Brando
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Florence Town Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Sandstone
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The End of the Line in Currie
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
District 6 School in New Sweden
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Le Sueur Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Little Falls Depot
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Ottawa
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Visiting Golden Gate
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Wasioja
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jordan Brewery Complex
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Old School In Wolverton
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Moving Old Hibbing
The Milford Monument
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lost Highway 61
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion School In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Cobden
Meyer School In St Augusta
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Remembering Quadna Resort
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hollywood Town Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Almelund Creamery
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Franconia
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...

