The Washburn water tower sits on a hill in the heart of the Washburn Park (commonly known as...
Twin Cities Area
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s Guardians of Health
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium was the first medical hospital in Anoka, Minnesota. Dr. James F. Kline opened the...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Apartments
Robbinsdale Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge (Svenska Mission Kyrka i Sodre Maple Ridge)...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Old Wadena
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Milford Monument
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Little Marais Inn
Hanover Bridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome to Hanska
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Endion Depot In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The End of the Line in Currie
Lost Highway 61
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Moderne New Ulm Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Dotson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood Town Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Red Wing Iron Works
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Old School In Wolverton
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Almelund Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Florence Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Ottawa
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Little Falls Depot
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Sandstone
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Cobden
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Franconia
Endion School In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
Meyer School In St Augusta
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Le Sueur Theater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Wasioja
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
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...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
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Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown