Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Twin Cities Area
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Apartments
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wilder Public Baths
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Jordan Brewery Complex
During the 1860s, Jordan had become an early industrial center in Scott County and brewing became...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Brewery In Preston
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Moving Old Hibbing
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hollywood Town Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Visiting Golden Gate
The Milford Monument
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Cobden
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Wasioja
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Franconia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Dotson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Oxford Mill Ruin
Finding The Past In Swatara
Florence Town Hall
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Old School In Wolverton
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bend in the River Regional Park
Red Wing Iron Works
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
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...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
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...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

