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...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Wilder Public Baths
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Eight Days in May Protests
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Robbinsdale Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Greater Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
By the end of the 19th century, dairy was quickly out-pacing wheat as the top agricultural...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Duluth Homestead Project
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Visiting Golden Gate
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Wasioja
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Le Sueur Theater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Ottawa
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
Meyer School In St Augusta
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Little Falls Depot
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Little Marais Inn
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Old Wadena
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Moderne New Ulm Library
Moving Old Hibbing
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Sandstone
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Florence Town Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Finding The Past In Swatara
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Bend in the River Regional Park
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Almelund Creamery
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Cobden
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Dotson
The Milford Monument
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lost Highway 61
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
District 48 School Near Delano
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Brewery In Preston
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Green Lake Mounds
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome to Hanska
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
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...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

