University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
Twin Cities Area
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gates of Stonebridge
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Townhomes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wilder Public Baths
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
District #28 School in Ramsey
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Robbinsdale Library
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Women’s City Club In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Archibald mill is located on the banks of the Cannon River in Dundas. Brothers John S. and...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s Town
When Samuel Pandolfo arrived in St. Cloud in 1917, he dreamed of building an automobile empire that...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
District 48 School Near Delano
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Milford Monument
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Endion Depot In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Sandstone
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Ottawa
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Little Marais Inn
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Wasioja
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Green Lake Mounds
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Old School In Wolverton
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Old Brewery In Preston
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Red Wing Iron Works
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Oxford Mill Ruin
Florence Town Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The End of the Line in Currie
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Church of the Holy Cross
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Little Falls Depot
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lost Highway 61
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Moving Old Hibbing
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Almelund Creamery
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
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...

