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
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg and his wife Dora were the owners of a jewelry store in downtown Minneapolis in the...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
St Rose of Lima church was built in 1878. The church and its cemetery sit on over an acre of land...
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
Old Brewery In Preston
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Almelund Creamery
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The End of the Line in Currie
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Red Wing Iron Works
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hanover Bridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
District 48 School Near Delano
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Ottawa
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Florence Town Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Franconia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Milford Monument
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Green Lake Mounds
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Sandstone
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Visiting Golden Gate
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 6 School in New Sweden
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Endion Depot In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Old School In Wolverton
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Cobden
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Dotson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
State Theater In Hutchinson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
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...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

