Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Robbinsdale Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
District #28 School in Ramsey
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wilder Public Baths
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
I’m sure we’ve all made typos that made us cringe once we noticed them. But most of our...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Green Lake Mounds
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Le Sueur Theater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Enter Marlon Brando
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome to Hanska
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Milford Monument
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Franconia
Historic Wasioja
Oxford Mill Ruin
The End of the Line in Currie
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Old Wadena
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Ottawa
Moving Old Hibbing
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lost Highway 61
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Ruins of Sawyer School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Old Brewery In Preston
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hanover Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood Town Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Visiting Golden Gate
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Endion Depot In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bend in the River Regional Park
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Church of the Holy Cross
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Munger Terrace In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Almelund Creamery
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
State Theater In Hutchinson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac 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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
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...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...

