Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Twin Cities Area
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
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...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Townhomes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Apartments
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Greater Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Avenue, located on the east side of St. Cloud, became part of the Jefferson Highway system...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hanover Bridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Taylor House In Le Sueur
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Old School In Wolverton
Moving Old Hibbing
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Endion School In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Exploring Sandstone
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome to Hanska
The Almelund Creamery
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Visiting Golden Gate
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Old Brewery In Preston
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Cobden
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Ottawa
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
State Theater In Hutchinson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Milford Monument
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bend in the River Regional Park
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Jordan Brewery Complex
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Little Marais Inn
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Red Wing Iron Works
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Enter Marlon Brando
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Florence Town Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Little Falls Depot
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Dotson
Hollywood Town Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Wasioja
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Green Lake Mounds
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lost Highway 61
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...

