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

