The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
Twin Cities Area
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Townhomes
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wilder Public Baths
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Eight Days in May Protests
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Old Brewery In Preston
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lost Highway 61
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Sandstone
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Cobden
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Endion Depot In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Franconia
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Old Wadena
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Le Sueur Theater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Dotson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Ruins of Sawyer School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome to Hanska
The Old School In Wolverton
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Jordan Brewery Complex
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Wasioja
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Enter Marlon Brando
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Red Wing Iron Works
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Endion School In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Florence Town Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Green Lake Mounds
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Almelund Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Moving Old Hibbing
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Oxford Mill Ruin
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
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...
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 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?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown