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
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Minneapolis has many beautiful homes, but the Gale mansion is easily one of my top three. I love...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Greater Minnesota
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Rush City Creamery Cooperative was organized in 1907 by a group of local dairy farmers. After...
Lost Highway 61
History buffs and curiosity seekers revel in finding a piece of the past. Stumbling across...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Old Wadena
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Ottawa
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hanover Bridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
District 48 School Near Delano
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bend in the River Regional Park
The End of the Line in Currie
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Dotson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome to Hanska
Red Wing Iron Works
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Almelund Creamery
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Cobden
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Endion Depot In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Moving Old Hibbing
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Franconia
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Milford Monument
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Le Sueur Theater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Finding The Past In Swatara
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Enter Marlon Brando
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Endion School In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Oxford Mill Ruin
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Green Lake Mounds
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Florence Town Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
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...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

