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...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Minneapolis has many beautiful homes, but the Gale mansion is easily one of my top three. I love...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wilder Public Baths
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Adolph Biermann house in Rochester is the oldest documented structure in the Mayowood Historic...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Jordan Brewery Complex
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Sandstone
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Dotson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Endion School In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Franconia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Milford Monument
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering Quadna Resort
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Moderne New Ulm Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Almelund Creamery
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Florence Town Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Oxford Mill Ruin
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
District 48 School Near Delano
Green Lake Mounds
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hanover Bridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Cobden
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
State Theater In Hutchinson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The End of the Line in Currie
The Duluth Homestead Project
District 6 School in New Sweden
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Church of the Holy Cross
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hollywood Town Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Ruins of Sawyer School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome to Hanska
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...

