As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
Twin Cities Area
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium was the first medical hospital in Anoka, Minnesota. Dr. James F. Kline opened the...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gates of Stonebridge
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Women’s City Club In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Greater Minnesota
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Built in 1898, the West Riverside School was originally known as District #38 School. Isanti County...
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...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Endion Depot In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Old Wadena
Little Falls Depot
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lost Highway 61
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Florence Town Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The End of the Line in Currie
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Old School In Wolverton
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Cobden
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Little Marais Inn
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Milford Monument
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Almelund Creamery
Old Brewery In Preston
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
District 48 School Near Delano
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Dotson
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Le Sueur Theater
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Franconia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Green Lake Mounds
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome to Hanska
Meyer School In St Augusta
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
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...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
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...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

