Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Twin Cities Area
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Harry F. Legg House 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...
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Meyer School In St Augusta
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Almelund Creamery
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Moving Old Hibbing
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Endion Depot In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The End of the Line in Currie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hanover Bridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Little Falls Depot
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Church of the Holy Cross
Green Lake Mounds
The Le Sueur Theater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Franconia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Little Marais Inn
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Sandstone
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Wasioja
Endion School In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Dotson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Cobden
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Visiting Golden Gate
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Ottawa
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome to Hanska
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

