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
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis was constructed between 1891 and 1893. It was...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Landmark Center In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Apartments
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
District #28 School in Ramsey
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Robbinsdale Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Wilder Public Baths
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Greater Minnesota
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
Historic Wasioja
Wasioja, Minnesota, was a thriving community in the 1850s and 1860s. The village was settled in...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Little Falls Depot
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bend in the River Regional Park
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Ottawa
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Old School In Wolverton
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Florence Town Hall
Hollywood Town Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Milford Monument
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
State Theater In Hutchinson
The End of the Line in Currie
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Sandstone
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Visiting Golden Gate
The Duluth Homestead Project
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
District 48 School Near Delano
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Meyer School In St Augusta
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Enter Marlon Brando
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lost Highway 61
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Green Lake Mounds
The Church of the Holy Cross
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Old Wadena
Endion Depot In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome To Cobden
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Remembering Quadna Resort
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

