Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Twin Cities Area
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Gates of Stonebridge
Robbinsdale Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Eight Days in May Protests
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Landmark Center In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Greater Minnesota
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ness Congregation was originally organized as the Norwegian Evangelical St. Johannes...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Several buildings were constructed on 30 acres of lakefront property in Two Harbors in the 1920s to...
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Almelund Creamery
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The End of the Line in Currie
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bend in the River Regional Park
Red Wing Iron Works
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Visiting Golden Gate
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Old Brewery In Preston
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Dotson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Milford Monument
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Le Sueur Theater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hanover Bridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome to Hanska
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Cobden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Wasioja
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Old Wadena
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Ottawa
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Moving Old Hibbing
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Endion School In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Enter Marlon Brando
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Old School In Wolverton
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Little Marais Inn
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Green Lake Mounds
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Jordan Brewery Complex
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Franconia
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
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...

