In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The house at 193 N Mackubin in Saint Paul, Minnesota, was built in 1882. This Second Empire-style...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wilder Public Baths
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Vermont-native Almond A. White came to Minnesota after the Civil War and settled in Brainerd for a...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Originally built as the second home of the First Swedish Baptist Church in 1910, the Temple Baptist...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Ruins of Sawyer School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lost Highway 61
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Sandstone
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Jordan Brewery Complex
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Visiting Golden Gate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome to Hanska
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Meyer School In St Augusta
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Green Lake Mounds
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hanover Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome To Cobden
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
District 48 School Near Delano
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Almelund Creamery
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The End of the Line in Currie
Florence Town Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Endion School In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Little Falls Depot
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Moving Old Hibbing
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bend in the River Regional Park
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Franconia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Little Marais Inn
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
District 6 School in New Sweden
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Le Sueur Theater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Ottawa
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Wasioja
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
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...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...

