This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
Twin Cities Area
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wilder Public Baths
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Eight Days in May Protests
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Old Brewery In Preston
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Milford Monument
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Visiting Golden Gate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Le Sueur Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Red Wing Iron Works
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Sandstone
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Green Lake Mounds
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Dotson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Finding The Past In Swatara
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Franconia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Almelund Creamery
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Oxford Mill Ruin
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Ottawa
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome to Hanska
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Jordan Brewery Complex
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Endion School In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Little Marais Inn
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lost Highway 61
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Old School In Wolverton
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Old Wadena
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The End of the Line in Currie
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

