Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Twin Cities Area
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg and his wife Dora were the owners of a jewelry store in downtown Minneapolis in the...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gates of Stonebridge
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wilder Public Baths
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Robbinsdale Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Landmark Center In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Apartments
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Greater Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Daniel Piper came to Minnesota from New Hampshire with his wife and daughter in early 1877...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lundring Service Station in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Remembering Quadna Resort
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Wasioja
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Green Lake Mounds
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Cobden
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hollywood Town Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Old School In Wolverton
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The End of the Line in Currie
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Milford Monument
Little Falls Depot
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Ottawa
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Duluth Homestead Project
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Finding The Past In Swatara
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Church of the Holy Cross
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Visiting Golden Gate
Red Wing Iron Works
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Endion Depot In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
District 48 School Near Delano
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hanover Bridge
Welcome to Hanska
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Le Sueur Theater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lost Highway 61
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Sandstone
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
District 6 School in New Sweden
Enter Marlon Brando
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Endion School In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
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...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

