Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Twin Cities Area
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s Guardians of Health
The Washburn water tower sits on a hill in the heart of the Washburn Park (commonly known as...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Apartments
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Robbinsdale Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Greater Minnesota
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Geldner Sawmill stands on a narrow strip of land that separates Lake Jefferson and German Lake...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lost Highway 61
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Daniel Piper House in Medford
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Little Marais Inn
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Milford Monument
Endion Depot In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Le Sueur Theater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Cobden
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Franconia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hollywood Town Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Old Brewery In Preston
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
State Theater In Hutchinson
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Wasioja
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome To Dotson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Jordan Brewery Complex
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Sandstone
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Old School In Wolverton
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Finding The Past In Swatara
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Red Wing Iron Works
Bend in the River Regional Park
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Little Falls Depot
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Randall Cooperative Creamery
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hanover Bridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Green Lake Mounds
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Moving Old Hibbing
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
District 48 School Near Delano
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate 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 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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

