It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
Twin Cities Area
Wilder Public Baths
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Robbinsdale Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Greater Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Endion Depot in Duluth, Minnesota, was moved to Canal Park in 1986 to make way for the...
Welcome To Dotson
Green Lake Mounds
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Old Wadena
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Wasioja
Lost Highway 61
Visiting Golden Gate
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Endion School In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hanover Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Sandstone
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Little Falls Depot
Remembering Quadna Resort
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Red Wing Iron Works
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome to Hanska
Moving Old Hibbing
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Milford Monument
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Old Brewery In Preston
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Finding The Past In Swatara
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Florence Town Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
District 6 School in New Sweden
Jordan Brewery Complex
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Cobden
Oxford Mill Ruin
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bend in the River Regional Park
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
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...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

