This beauty was built in 1914 and is St Paul’s largest Prairie Style house at just under 3,000...
Twin Cities Area
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
At the turn of the twentieth century, newspapers and magazines touted quack cures and healing cults...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wilder Public Baths
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Saint Paul Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Greater Minnesota
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The original village hall in Waverly was built in 1893. The two-story, brick and stone building sat...
District 6 School in New Sweden
The District 6 school in New Sweden Township stands in a field surrounded by tall stalks of corn in...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Franconia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Red Wing Iron Works
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lost Highway 61
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Remembering Quadna Resort
The End of the Line in Currie
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
District 48 School Near Delano
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Endion Depot In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Le Sueur Theater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Meyer School In St Augusta
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Green Lake Mounds
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
The Little Marais Inn
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Enter Marlon Brando
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Sandstone
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Little Falls Depot
Old Brewery In Preston
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hollywood Town Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Ottawa
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Endion School In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Jordan Brewery Complex
Florence Town Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Old Wadena
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moderne New Ulm Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Moving Old Hibbing
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome to Hanska
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
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...

