Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the stateโs empire builders, St. Paulโs elite built their...
Twin Cities Area
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. Itโs dwarfed by the...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Robbinsdale Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wilder Public Baths
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
District #28 School in Ramsey
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Apartments
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluthโs west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
Lost Highway 61
History buffs and curiosity seekers revel in finding a piece of the past. Stumbling across...
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Little Marais Inn
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Hanover Bridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Enter Marlon Brando
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Little Falls Depot
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Red Wing Iron Works
State Theater In Hutchinson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Old School In Wolverton
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Wasioja
Ruins of Sawyer School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bend in the River Regional Park
Endion School In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Sandstone
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Cobden
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome to Hanska
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The End of the Line in Currie
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Green Lake Mounds
Hollywood Town Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Dotson
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Milford Monument
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Jordan Brewery Complex
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Visiting Golden Gate
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

