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...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium was the first medical hospital in Anoka, Minnesota. Dr. James F. Kline opened the...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wilder Public Baths
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Eight Days in May Protests
Greater Minnesota
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
September 24, 1909 At 4:20 a.m., an off-duty worker at the Fergus Falls City Light Station woke up...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome to Hanska
The Little Marais Inn
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The End of the Line in Currie
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Sandstone
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Jordan Brewery Complex
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering Quadna Resort
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Little Falls Depot
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hollywood Town Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hanover Bridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Le Sueur Theater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Franconia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Dotson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Oxford Mill Ruin
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lost Highway 61
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Red Wing Iron Works
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bend in the River Regional Park
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Old Brewery In Preston
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Finding The Past In Swatara
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Old School In Wolverton
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Cobden
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

