St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
Twin Cities Area
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Townhomes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
District #28 School in Ramsey
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Robbinsdale Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wilder Public Baths
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Visiting Golden Gate
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Red Wing Iron Works
District 6 School in New Sweden
Enter Marlon Brando
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Incline Railway
District 48 School Near Delano
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Florence Town Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Milford Monument
Lost Highway 61
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Oxford Mill Ruin
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Old Wadena
The End of the Line in Currie
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bend in the River Regional Park
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Welcome to Hanska
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion School In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Dotson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Finding The Past In Swatara
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
State Theater In Hutchinson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood Town Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
Old Brewery In Preston
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Sandstone
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Cobden
The Duluth Homestead Project
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
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...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

