As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
Twin Cities Area
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
At the turn of the twentieth century, newspapers and magazines touted quack cures and healing cults...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
District #28 School in Ramsey
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Robbinsdale Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wilder Public Baths
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
By the end of the 19th century, dairy was quickly out-pacing wheat as the top agricultural...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry D. Huff was a land speculator who built a brick and stone Italian Villa-style house on a...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Sandstone
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Old School In Wolverton
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Moderne New Ulm Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Visiting Golden Gate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Wasioja
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Moving Old Hibbing
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Little Falls Depot
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Little Marais Inn
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Hollywood Town Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Franconia
Exploring Ottawa
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Red Wing Iron Works
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Old Wadena
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Florence Town Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Enter Marlon Brando
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome to Hanska
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Almond White and the Motley Castle
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The End of the Line in Currie
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

