Names like Louis Comfort Tiffany and Gustav Stickley are well rooted in many American’s minds as...
Twin Cities Area
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Townhomes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Apartments
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Saint Paul Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Englanders who settled in the St Croix Valley were drawn there because of the thick, wild...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The original village hall in Waverly was built in 1893. The two-story, brick and stone building sat...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Florence Town Hall
Hollywood Town Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Oxford Mill Ruin
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Little Falls Depot
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Visiting Golden Gate
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Moving Old Hibbing
The Little Marais Inn
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Dotson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome to Hanska
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Sandstone
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Almelund Creamery
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Milford Monument
The Duluth Homestead Project
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Jordan Brewery Complex
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Cobden
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Ottawa
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Old Brewery In Preston
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lost Highway 61
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
District 48 School Near Delano
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Meyer School In St Augusta
The End of the Line in Currie
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Moderne New Ulm Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Le Sueur Theater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Enter Marlon Brando
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Green Lake Mounds
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Endion School In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

