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...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Built between 1902 and 1904, this beautiful building on its shady lot served southeast Minneapolis...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Saint Paul Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Gates of Stonebridge
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Ok, stick with me here. Can you remember how your elementary school smelled? I can. Vividly. A hint...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering Quadna Resort
Oxford Mill Ruin
Moderne New Ulm Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Dotson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Moving Old Hibbing
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Visiting Golden Gate
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lost Highway 61
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Red Wing Iron Works
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Little Falls Depot
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Enter Marlon Brando
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hanover Bridge
Historic Franconia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
District 48 School Near Delano
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Ottawa
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
State Theater In Hutchinson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Duluth Homestead Project
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Milford Monument
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Green Lake Mounds
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Jordan Brewery Complex
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Wasioja
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hollywood Town Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Church of the Holy Cross
Endion Depot In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Florence Town Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Sandstone
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

