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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The house at 193 N Mackubin in Saint Paul, Minnesota, was built in 1882. This Second Empire-style...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
District #28 School in Ramsey
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Robbinsdale Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Greater Minnesota
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Bally Blacksmith Shop opened in 1911 when Sam Bally left his job at a sawmill to open his own...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Donald and Carrie Balfour house in Rochester, Minnesota, is a lovely example of how an Arts and...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Green Lake Mounds
Jordan Brewery Complex
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The End of the Line in Currie
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Enter Marlon Brando
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Florence Town Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome to Hanska
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Finding The Past In Swatara
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Old Wadena
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Franconia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Almelund Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Dotson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hollywood Town Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Sandstone
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lost Highway 61
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Le Sueur Theater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Moving Old Hibbing
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Church of the Holy Cross
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Wasioja
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Old School In Wolverton
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 48 School Near Delano
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Ottawa
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Milford Monument
Endion School In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hanover Bridge
Red Wing Iron Works
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Meyer School In St Augusta
Old Brewery In Preston
The Little Marais Inn
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

