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...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Apartments
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Townhomes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Robbinsdale Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Eight Days in May Protests
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Greater Minnesota
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Free Public Library in Hutchinson, Minnesota, was first organized in 1874 by early settlers of...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Green Lake Mounds
The Duluth Homestead Project
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Little Falls Depot
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hanover Bridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hollywood Town Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Moving Old Hibbing
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Brewery In Preston
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Ottawa
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The End of the Line in Currie
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Florence Town Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Endion School In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Enter Marlon Brando
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
District 6 School in New Sweden
Moderne New Ulm Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Milford Monument
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Cobden
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Franconia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Sandstone
District 48 School Near Delano
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Remembering Quadna Resort
Visiting Golden Gate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
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...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

