St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
Twin Cities Area
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Townhomes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gates of Stonebridge
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Landmark Center In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Robbinsdale Library
Wilder Public Baths
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Originally built as the second home of the First Swedish Baptist Church in 1910, the Temple Baptist...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
This gorgeous Second Empire style home in Hastings was built for William Thompson in 1880. Thompson...
Welcome to Hanska
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Little Marais Inn
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Moving Old Hibbing
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Florence Town Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Old Brewery In Preston
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The End of the Line in Currie
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hanover Bridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Ottawa
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bend in the River Regional Park
Endion School In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Almelund Creamery
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Le Sueur Theater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Wasioja
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Enter Marlon Brando
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Visiting Golden Gate
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lost Highway 61
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Milford Monument
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Jordan Brewery Complex
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Cobden
Munger Terrace In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Dotson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Little Falls Depot
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

