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...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Lustron homes along Nicollet Avenue near 50th Street S in Minneapolis are among nearly 2,500 of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wilder Public Baths
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Robbinsdale Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Townhomes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
In 1909, just eight years after this school was built in Sandstone, lightning struck. Sadly, the...
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Not much has changed at this house in Duluth. It looks pretty much the same as it did when it was...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Moving Old Hibbing
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome To Dotson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Wasioja
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Florence Town Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hollywood Town Hall
Endion School In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Franconia
Lost Highway 61
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Little Falls Depot
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Visiting Golden Gate
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Old School In Wolverton
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Wandering Around The Toimi School
State Theater In Hutchinson
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Cobden
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hanover Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
District 48 School Near Delano
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Almelund Creamery
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Brewery In Preston
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Finding The Past In Swatara
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome to Hanska
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Milford Monument
Enter Marlon Brando
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Sandstone
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

