Constructed in 1869-70, the Metropolitan Hotel once stood at the corner of Washington and Third...
Twin Cities Area
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Apartments
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wilder Public Baths
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Townhomes
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Eight Days in May Protests
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Frederick E. Murphy was known as the publisher and guiding spirit of the Minneapolis Tribune...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Sandstone
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The End of the Line in Currie
Meyer School In St Augusta
Enter Marlon Brando
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Jordan Brewery Complex
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Dotson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Almelund Creamery
The Old School In Wolverton
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Ottawa
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Oxford Mill Ruin
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lost Highway 61
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Little Falls Depot
Endion School In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Franconia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Le Sueur Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Red Wing Iron Works
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Incline Railway
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Cobden
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome to Hanska
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 48 School Near Delano
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Wasioja
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hanover Bridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Florence Town Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering Quadna Resort
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Duluth Homestead Project
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Green Lake Mounds
Moving Old Hibbing
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Little Marais Inn
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

