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...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
This beauty was built in 1914 and is St Paul’s largest Prairie Style house at just under 3,000...
The Swinford Apartments
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Townhomes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Landmark Center In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Greater Minnesota
Jordan Brewery Complex
During the 1860s, Jordan had become an early industrial center in Scott County and brewing became...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The public library in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota was built in 1913 with a $10,000 grant from Andrew...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Moving Old Hibbing
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Almelund Creamery
The Little Marais Inn
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion School In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Remembering Quadna Resort
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Wasioja
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
State Theater In Hutchinson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Sandstone
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Old Brewery In Preston
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Finding The Past In Swatara
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Le Sueur Theater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Ruins of Sawyer School
Little Falls Depot
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Endion Depot In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Florence Town Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Milford Monument
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lost Highway 61
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Ottawa
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Franconia
Oxford Mill Ruin
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Enter Marlon Brando
Meyer School In St Augusta
Green Lake Mounds
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bend in the River Regional Park
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Cobden
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome to Hanska
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hollywood Town Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Visiting Golden Gate
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
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...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

