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...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Apartments
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wilder Public Baths
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Greater Minnesota
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Washington County District No. 2 was formed in 1857 for the growing number of children moving into...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
There are quite a few examples of the gorgeous Eastlake-style architecture in Minnesota, but this...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Little Marais Inn
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome to Hanska
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hollywood Town Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Jordan Brewery Complex
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Duluth Homestead Project
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Le Sueur Theater
Endion School In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
District 48 School Near Delano
The Milford Monument
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Moving Old Hibbing
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Florence Town Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Franconia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Almelund Creamery
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lost Highway 61
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Cobden
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The End of the Line in Currie
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hanover Bridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Old Brewery In Preston
The Old School In Wolverton
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Oxford Mill Ruin
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Enter Marlon Brando
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

