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...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
It may have been luck that spared the Colonnade Hotel the same fate as so many other old downtown...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Apartments
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Robbinsdale Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Townhomes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Greater Minnesota
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
William Colvill — does that name ring a bell? Unless you're a Civil War history buff, this name...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Sandstone
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Florence Town Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Visiting Golden Gate
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Little Marais Inn
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Meyer School In St Augusta
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Duluth Homestead Project
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Almelund Creamery
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
State Theater In Hutchinson
Little Falls Depot
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Franconia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Endion School In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Moving Old Hibbing
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Le Sueur Theater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Old School In Wolverton
Moderne New Ulm Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome to Hanska
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Milford Monument
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Cobden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lost Highway 61
Enter Marlon Brando
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood Town Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
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...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

