Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Twin Cities Area
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Wilder Public Baths
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
District #28 School in Ramsey
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Townhomes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Greater Minnesota
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
In 1957, trucks loaded with prefabricated homes rolled along Highway 61 toward a new building site...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Little Marais Inn
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
The End of the Line in Currie
Little Falls Depot
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Florence Town Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Old Brewery In Preston
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Franconia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Enter Marlon Brando
Endion School In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Old School In Wolverton
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Oxford Mill Ruin
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Ruins of Sawyer School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Le Sueur Theater
The Duluth Homestead Project
Red Wing Iron Works
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
District 48 School Near Delano
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Remembering Quadna Resort
Moving Old Hibbing
Meyer School In St Augusta
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Ottawa
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Cobden
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
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...
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
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac 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 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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

