University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
Twin Cities Area
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gates of Stonebridge
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Robbinsdale Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wilder Public Baths
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Apartments
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Oxford Mill was located on the bank of the Little Cannon River near Cannon Falls. When the mill...
Visiting Golden Gate
A post office was first established in Golden Gate, Minnesota, in 1868. The little town sprang up...
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Franconia
Old Brewery In Preston
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Le Sueur Theater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Meyer School In St Augusta
Red Wing Iron Works
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Endion School In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Sandstone
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Dotson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Cobden
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Little Falls Depot
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hollywood Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Old Wadena
Green Lake Mounds
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
The Almelund Creamery
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering Quadna Resort
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hanover Bridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Wasioja
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Florence Town Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Milford Monument
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Moderne New Ulm Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lost Highway 61
Endion Depot In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
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...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

