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...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The McKnight’s Park Avenue mansion was completed in 1892 for a total cost of nearly $36,000...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Townhomes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Apartments
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
District #28 School in Ramsey
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to one of the most awe-inspiring buildings in Minnesota. It’s big. It’s...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
State Theater In Hutchinson
Endion School In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Enter Marlon Brando
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Green Lake Mounds
Red Wing Iron Works
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Dotson
Lost Highway 61
The Le Sueur Theater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hanover Bridge
The Almelund Creamery
Little Falls Depot
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The New Ulm Company Service Station
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hollywood Town Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Oxford Mill Ruin
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Old School In Wolverton
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Endion Depot In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The End of the Line in Currie
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Jordan Brewery Complex
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Little Marais Inn
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Ottawa
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Franconia
The Milford Monument
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Old Wadena
Meyer School In St Augusta
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Sandstone
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

