The Lustron homes along Nicollet Avenue near 50th Street S in Minneapolis are among nearly 2,500 of...
Twin Cities Area
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Eight Days in May Protests
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Red Wing Iron Works
Red Wing Iron Works was founded in 1866 by brothers Benjamin and Daniel Densmore. They found a...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
The Church of the Holy Cross
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
Moving Old Hibbing
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Little Marais Inn
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
State Theater In Hutchinson
Old Brewery In Preston
Hanover Bridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Finding The Past In Swatara
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome to Hanska
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Milford Monument
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Little Falls Depot
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Ottawa
Visiting Golden Gate
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Dotson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Duluth Homestead Project
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Cobden
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
The Old School In Wolverton
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Florence Town Hall
Historic Wasioja
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Sandstone
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Green Lake Mounds
Enter Marlon Brando
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...

