As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
Twin Cities Area
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Lustron homes along Nicollet Avenue near 50th Street S in Minneapolis are among nearly 2,500 of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wilder Public Baths
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Saint Paul Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gates of Stonebridge
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Apartments
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Visiting Golden Gate
A post office was first established in Golden Gate, Minnesota, in 1868. The little town sprang up...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lost Highway 61
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Ottawa
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Enter Marlon Brando
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome to Hanska
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Milford Monument
Finding The Past In Swatara
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood Town Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
State Theater In Hutchinson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Old Wadena
Meyer School In St Augusta
Florence Town Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Old School In Wolverton
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Cobden
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Ruins of Sawyer School
Little Falls Depot
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hanover Bridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Old Brewery In Preston
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Franconia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
District 6 School in New Sweden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Dotson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moving Old Hibbing
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Endion Depot In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Le Sueur Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bend in the River Regional Park
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

