St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
Twin Cities Area
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The District #28 School was constructed in Ramsey in 1892 to replace a smaller, wood frame school...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Robbinsdale Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Townhomes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Greater Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Rush City Creamery Cooperative was organized in 1907 by a group of local dairy farmers. After...
Exploring Ottawa
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
District 48 School Near Delano
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Old Wadena
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Hanover Bridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Ruins of Sawyer School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
District 6 School in New Sweden
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Dotson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Franconia
Lost Highway 61
The Old School In Wolverton
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Little Marais Inn
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hollywood Town Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Moving Old Hibbing
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Little Falls Depot
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Meyer School In St Augusta
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Enter Marlon Brando
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Old Brewery In Preston
Florence Town Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Cobden
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Visiting Golden Gate
The End of the Line in Currie
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
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...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...

