As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
Twin Cities Area
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles G. Jackson immigrated to the U.S. and purchased the Anoka House, the oldest hotel in Anoka...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gates of Stonebridge
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Landmark Center In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Wandering Around The Toimi School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Florence Town Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Le Sueur Theater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Enter Marlon Brando
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Ruins of Sawyer School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Little Marais Inn
Jordan Brewery Complex
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Milford Monument
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Cobden
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Sandstone
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Endion School In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Little Falls Depot
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Old School In Wolverton
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
District 48 School Near Delano
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Dotson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bend in the River Regional Park
Old Brewery In Preston
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Franconia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Almelund Creamery
Finding The Past In Swatara
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Wasioja
Moving Old Hibbing
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
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...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

