Constructed in 1897 for $13,000, the First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was designed...
Twin Cities Area
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
It may have been luck that spared the Colonnade Hotel the same fate as so many other old downtown...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wilder Public Baths
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Landmark Center In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Apartments
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Built in 1926, the New Ulm Company Service Station is the best remaining example in a series of...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Le Sueur Theater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hollywood Town Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Visiting Golden Gate
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome to Hanska
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Endion Depot In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Florence Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Church of the Holy Cross
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Ruins of Sawyer School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Little Falls Depot
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Endion School In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Red Wing Iron Works
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Franconia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Remembering Quadna Resort
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Meyer School In St Augusta
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Enter Marlon Brando
The Little Marais Inn
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Wasioja
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Sandstone
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Dotson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Finding The Past In Swatara
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his motherโs death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

