The St Paul Hotel has been the backbone of charm and elegance in downtown St Paul since it opened...
Twin Cities Area
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
On March 22, 1836, Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark married Lieutenant Horatio Phillips Van Cleve a few...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Eight Days in May Protests
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Robbinsdale Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Apartments
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wilder Public Baths
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Avenue, located on the east side of St. Cloud, became part of the Jefferson Highway system...
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome to Hanska
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Old Brewery In Preston
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Little Falls Depot
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lost Highway 61
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Moving Old Hibbing
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The End of the Line in Currie
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Remembering Quadna Resort
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hollywood Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Old School In Wolverton
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Church of the Holy Cross
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bend in the River Regional Park
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Enter Marlon Brando
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Red Wing Iron Works
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Sandstone
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Endion School In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Cobden
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Visiting Golden Gate
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Milford Monument
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Dotson
Green Lake Mounds
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Almelund Creamery
Daniel Piper House in Medford
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Le Sueur Theater
Florence Town Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Franconia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Wasioja
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

