As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
Twin Cities Area
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Greater Minnesota
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Rush City Creamery Cooperative was organized in 1907 by a group of local dairy farmers. After...
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Florence Town Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Visiting Golden Gate
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hollywood Town Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Little Marais Inn
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Almelund Creamery
The End of the Line in Currie
District 48 School Near Delano
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bend in the River Regional Park
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome to Hanska
Hanover Bridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Sandstone
Jordan Brewery Complex
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Meyer School In St Augusta
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Le Sueur Theater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Moving Old Hibbing
Old Brewery In Preston
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Milford Monument
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Endion School In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Wasioja
Enter Marlon Brando
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Ruins of Sawyer School
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...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

