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

