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...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Apartments
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Townhomes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Orpheum Theater in Duluth, Minnesota, was built on the old Temple Opera House site. The opera...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The original village hall in Waverly was built in 1893. The two-story, brick and stone building sat...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Old Brewery In Preston
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Visiting Golden Gate
State Theater In Hutchinson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Cobden
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Sandstone
The End of the Line in Currie
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Wasioja
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood Town Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome to Hanska
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Church of the Holy Cross
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Little Falls Depot
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
District 48 School Near Delano
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Little Marais Inn
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Moving Old Hibbing
The Almelund Creamery
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Red Wing Iron Works
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Florence Town Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lost Highway 61
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Green Lake Mounds
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Franconia
Remembering Quadna Resort
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Le Sueur Theater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Dotson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
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 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
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...

