If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
Twin Cities Area
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Robbinsdale Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wilder Public Baths
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Townhomes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
The Le Sueur Theater
The Le Sueur Theater on Main Street in Le Sueur, Minnesota, opened in 1884. The building was...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Old School In Wolverton
Finding The Past In Swatara
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Enter Marlon Brando
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The New Ulm Company Service Station
District 6 School in New Sweden
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Cobden
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The End of the Line in Currie
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Green Lake Mounds
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Remembering Quadna Resort
Moderne New Ulm Library
Endion School In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Endion Depot In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Sandstone
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Little Falls Depot
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
State Theater In Hutchinson
Moving Old Hibbing
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Meyer School In St Augusta
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Franconia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Almelund Creamery
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hanover Bridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Red Wing Iron Works
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Wasioja
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
District 48 School Near Delano
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Old Brewery In Preston
The Milford Monument
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Article Archive
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