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
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Robbinsdale Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Saint Paul Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wilder Public Baths
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s Town
When Samuel Pandolfo arrived in St. Cloud in 1917, he dreamed of building an automobile empire that...
Welcome to Hanska
Hanska was supposed to be a quick stop on my way from Mankato to Sleepy Eye. I planned to get a few...
Moving Old Hibbing
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Little Falls Depot
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Almelund Creamery
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Endion Depot In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
District 6 School in New Sweden
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Florence Town Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Visiting Golden Gate
The Milford Monument
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Church of the Holy Cross
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Wasioja
State Theater In Hutchinson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hanover Bridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Endion School In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Oxford Mill Ruin
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Red Wing Iron Works
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Old School In Wolverton
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Little Marais Inn
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Cobden
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Franconia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Old Wadena
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Sandstone
The Le Sueur Theater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hollywood Town Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Ottawa
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
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...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

