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