The St Paul Hotel has been the backbone of charm and elegance in downtown St Paul since it opened...
Twin Cities Area
The Saint Paul Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
Robbinsdale Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Wilder Public Baths
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Eight Days in May Protests
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Landmark Center In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Apartments
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Greater Minnesota
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Before the Interstate Bridge was built between Duluth and Superior in the late-1890s, the only way...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
November 27, 1905, was a typical Monday morning for the crew of the flat-bottomed scow, George...
The Old School In Wolverton
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The End of the Line in Currie
Visiting Golden Gate
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Finding The Past In Swatara
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Green Lake Mounds
Old Brewery In Preston
Enter Marlon Brando
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Duluth Homestead Project
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Old Wadena
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Sandstone
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hanover Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Ruins of Sawyer School
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Milford Monument
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Hollywood Town Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Florence Town Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lost Highway 61
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Dotson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Almelund Creamery
Little Falls Depot
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Little Marais Inn
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Wasioja
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Ottawa
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City 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 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?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
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...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

