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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Apartments
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Townhomes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
For several years, Tenney held the distinction of being Minnesota’s smallest town. The 2010 census...
Enter Marlon Brando
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Endion School In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Dotson
District 6 School in New Sweden
The End of the Line in Currie
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Ruins of Sawyer School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Green Lake Mounds
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Le Sueur Theater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Church of the Holy Cross
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Cobden
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome to Hanska
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Little Falls Depot
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Old Wadena
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Franconia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Daniel Piper House in Medford
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Jordan Brewery Complex
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hanover Bridge
Historic Wasioja
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
The Milford Monument
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Oxford Mill Ruin
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Florence Town Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
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...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

