St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
Twin Cities Area
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
All of Theodore and Louise Hamm’s children stayed close to their family home and business. Most...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Apartments
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State Hospital
In 1873, the State of Minnesota was looking for a way to house an increasingly problematic group of...
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Historic Franconia
The Church of the Holy Cross
Little Falls Depot
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome to Hanska
Enter Marlon Brando
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lost Highway 61
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Ruins of Sawyer School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Old School In Wolverton
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Oxford Mill Ruin
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Meyer School In St Augusta
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Almelund Creamery
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Visiting Golden Gate
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Sandstone
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Green Lake Mounds
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Red Wing Iron Works
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
District 6 School in New Sweden
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Randall Cooperative Creamery
District 48 School Near Delano
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Ottawa
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Wasioja
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Florence Town Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Duluth Homestead Project
Old Brewery In Preston
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
State Theater In Hutchinson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Little Marais Inn
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hanover Bridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...

