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...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
The Swinford Apartments
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gates of Stonebridge
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Robbinsdale Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Townhomes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wilder Public Baths
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Franconia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
District 6 School in New Sweden
Endion Depot In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Sandstone
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Visiting Golden Gate
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Cobden
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Milford Monument
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Meyer School In St Augusta
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lost Highway 61
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
District 48 School Near Delano
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Endion School In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Wasioja
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Duluth Homestead Project
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Little Falls Depot
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Ottawa
Hanover Bridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Enter Marlon Brando
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Florence Town Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bend in the River Regional Park
Daniel Piper House in Medford
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Little Marais Inn
Old Brewery In Preston
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Almelund Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
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...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

