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...
Wilder Public Baths
It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Landmark Center In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Robbinsdale Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Greater Minnesota
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Beaver Bay is the oldest white settlement along the North Shore of Lake Superior. It was...
Welcome To Dotson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Finding The Past In Swatara
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
State Theater In Hutchinson
Green Lake Mounds
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Cobden
Enter Marlon Brando
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Almelund Creamery
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Red Wing Iron Works
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Endion School In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Moving Old Hibbing
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Church of the Holy Cross
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
District 48 School Near Delano
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome to Hanska
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Le Sueur Theater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
District 6 School in New Sweden
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Visiting Golden Gate
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Sandstone
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Oxford Mill Ruin
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lost Highway 61
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Old Brewery In Preston
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Florence Town Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The End of the Line in Currie
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Franconia
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hollywood Town Hall
The Little Marais Inn
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
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...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...

