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...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Eight Days in May Protests
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Robbinsdale Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
There are quite a few examples of the gorgeous Eastlake-style architecture in Minnesota, but this...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hollywood Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Church of the Holy Cross
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Moderne New Ulm Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
Enter Marlon Brando
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Green Lake Mounds
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Cobden
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Ruins of Sawyer School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Jordan Brewery Complex
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Wasioja
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Moving Old Hibbing
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Old Brewery In Preston
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Endion Depot In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Little Falls Depot
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Red Wing Iron Works
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Lost Highway 61
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Endion School In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hanover Bridge
Florence Town Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Old School In Wolverton
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
District 6 School in New Sweden
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Dotson
Remembering Quadna Resort
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
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...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
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...

