As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
Twin Cities Area
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wilder Public Baths
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Townhomes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Eight Days in May Protests
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Little Falls Depot
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
State Theater In Hutchinson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Ottawa
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Dotson
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Milford Monument
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Moving Old Hibbing
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
District 6 School in New Sweden
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Franconia
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lost Highway 61
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Little Marais Inn
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Red Wing Iron Works
Visiting Golden Gate
The Duluth Homestead Project
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Meyer School In St Augusta
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
District 48 School Near Delano
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Brewery In Preston
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hollywood Town Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Enter Marlon Brando
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
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...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Old Brewery In Preston