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...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Robbinsdale Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Sandstone
The city of Sandstone, Minnesota, was platted and incorporated in 1887. The area was a major hub...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
Exploring Ottawa
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Visiting Golden Gate
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Le Sueur Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
District 6 School in New Sweden
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Florence Town Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion School In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Meyer School In St Augusta
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Milford Monument
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Moderne New Ulm Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moving Old Hibbing
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Almelund Creamery
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Cobden
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hanover Bridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Green Lake Mounds
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
District 48 School Near Delano
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Franconia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Duluth Homestead Project
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Endion Depot In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Old Brewery In Preston
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Old School In Wolverton
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Finding The Past In Swatara
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Dotson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Enter Marlon Brando
The End of the Line in Currie
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Hollywood Town Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome to Hanska
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
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...
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
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
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...

