This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
Twin Cities Area
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Minneapolis has many beautiful homes, but the Gale mansion is easily one of my top three. I love...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Apartments
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Townhomes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
In 1872, Joseph Schmucker took over operation of Friton Brewery, which was the first brewery to...
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Almelund Creamery
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Enter Marlon Brando
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hanover Bridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome to Hanska
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Old Wadena
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Milford Monument
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Munger Terrace In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Moderne New Ulm Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Meyer School In St Augusta
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Endion School In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Moving Old Hibbing
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Dotson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Church of the Holy Cross
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Exploring Sandstone
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Old Brewery In Preston
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Little Marais Inn
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Old School In Wolverton
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
District 48 School Near Delano
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lost Highway 61
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...

