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...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Robbinsdale Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gates of Stonebridge
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wilder Public Baths
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The original village hall in Waverly was built in 1893. The two-story, brick and stone building sat...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Florence Town Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lost Highway 61
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome to Hanska
Green Lake Mounds
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Wasioja
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bend in the River Regional Park
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Moving Old Hibbing
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Little Falls Depot
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Dotson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Sandstone
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Endion School In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Endion Depot In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Moderne New Ulm Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Old School In Wolverton
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Almelund Creamery
Visiting Golden Gate
Ruins of Sawyer School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Milford Monument
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Franconia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Ottawa
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Red Wing Iron Works
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Finding The Past In Swatara
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
District 6 School in New Sweden
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Old Wadena
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
District 48 School Near Delano
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

