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...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The St Paul Hotel has been the backbone of charm and elegance in downtown St Paul since it opened...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wilder Public Baths
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Franconia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Red Wing Iron Works
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Old Wadena
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Sandstone
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Ruins of Sawyer School
Enter Marlon Brando
The End of the Line in Currie
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Old School In Wolverton
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Le Sueur Theater
Jordan Brewery Complex
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Old Brewery In Preston
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Wasioja
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Church of the Holy Cross
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moving Old Hibbing
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Ottawa
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
District 6 School in New Sweden
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Almelund Creamery
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Endion School In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome to Hanska
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Little Marais Inn
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Visiting Golden Gate
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The New Ulm Company Service Station
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Cobden
District 48 School Near Delano
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Little Falls Depot
Endion Depot In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
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
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...

