Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Twin Cities Area
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Apartments
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wilder Public Baths
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Robbinsdale Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Townhomes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Greater Minnesota
Historic Wasioja
Wasioja, Minnesota, was a thriving community in the 1850s and 1860s. The village was settled in...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Early settler and local banker Edson Smith built this French Second Empire style home for his...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Florence Town Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Red Wing Iron Works
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hanover Bridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood Town Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Endion School In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Sandstone
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The End of the Line in Currie
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Visiting Golden Gate
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Cobden
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Le Sueur Theater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Little Falls Depot
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Moving Old Hibbing
District 6 School in New Sweden
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Oxford Mill Ruin
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
State Theater In Hutchinson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Ottawa
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Green Lake Mounds
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Old Brewery In Preston
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
District 48 School Near Delano
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Duluth Homestead Project
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Dotson
Jordan Brewery Complex
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...

