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 Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Robbinsdale Library
Greater Minnesota
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
September 24, 1909 At 4:20 a.m., an off-duty worker at the Fergus Falls City Light Station woke up...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge (Svenska Mission Kyrka i Sodre Maple Ridge)...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Jordan Brewery Complex
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Oxford Mill Ruin
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Enter Marlon Brando
Florence Town Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Red Wing Iron Works
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Visiting Golden Gate
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Ottawa
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome to Hanska
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The End of the Line in Currie
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
District 48 School Near Delano
The Duluth Homestead Project
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Ruins of Sawyer School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hollywood Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Franconia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Endion School In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Dotson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Old School In Wolverton
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Cobden
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Old Brewery In Preston
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Sandstone
Meyer School In St Augusta
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lost Highway 61
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Almelund Creamery
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Taylor House In Le Sueur
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

