Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Originally named the Palazzo, the Colonnade Hotel opened on St. Peter Street in Saint Paul in 1888...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Apartments
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wilder Public Baths
The Saint Paul Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Cobden
Cobden, Minnesota, was incorporated in 1905. The little railroad town included a bank, creamery...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome to Hanska
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Green Lake Mounds
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Dotson
The Almelund Creamery
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Visiting Golden Gate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hanover Bridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lost Highway 61
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Sandstone
Florence Town Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Enter Marlon Brando
Endion School In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Old School In Wolverton
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Finding The Past In Swatara
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Remembering Quadna Resort
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Endion Depot In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hollywood Town Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Le Sueur Theater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Little Marais Inn
District 48 School Near Delano
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The End of the Line in Currie
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Franconia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Meyer School In St Augusta
The New Ulm Company Service Station
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Red Wing Iron Works
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Milford Monument
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Ottawa
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Wasioja
Moving Old Hibbing
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Old Wadena
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Moderne New Ulm Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Jordan Brewery Complex
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...

