The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis was constructed between 1891 and 1893. It was...
Twin Cities Area
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
Wilder Public Baths
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Robbinsdale Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Apartments
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Townhomes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gates of Stonebridge
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
If you’ve been to the Mille Lacs area of Minnesota, there’s a good chance you’ve...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Red Wing Iron Works
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Sandstone
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Little Marais Inn
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Endion Depot In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Franconia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Green Lake Mounds
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Milford Monument
Hollywood Town Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Little Falls Depot
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Jordan Brewery Complex
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Le Sueur Theater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Dotson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Old School In Wolverton
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
The Church of the Holy Cross
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Moving Old Hibbing
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Wasioja
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Brewery In Preston
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
State Theater In Hutchinson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Florence Town Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The End of the Line in Currie
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Almelund Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Munger Terrace In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome to Hanska
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...

