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...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Apartments
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wilder Public Baths
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Greater Minnesota
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Arthur Orr was a 286’ steel package freighter built by the Chicago Ship Building Company. She...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Old Wadena
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Moving Old Hibbing
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Little Marais Inn
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Oxford Mill Ruin
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Moderne New Ulm Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Finding The Past In Swatara
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hanover Bridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The End of the Line in Currie
State Theater In Hutchinson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bend in the River Regional Park
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Ottawa
Visiting Golden Gate
Green Lake Mounds
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Little Falls Depot
Florence Town Hall
The Almelund Creamery
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Dotson
The Le Sueur Theater
Lost Highway 61
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Wasioja
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome to Hanska
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Cobden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Franconia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Endion School In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hollywood Town Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
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
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

