Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Twin Cities Area
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wilder Public Baths
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Landmark Center In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
District #28 School in Ramsey
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
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...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Arthur Orr was a 286’ steel package freighter built by the Chicago Ship Building Company. She...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Almelund Creamery
Florence Town Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hollywood Town Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Dotson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Milford Monument
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Meyer School In St Augusta
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Remembering Quadna Resort
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Endion School In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Franconia
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Green Lake Mounds
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Finding The Past In Swatara
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Sandstone
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Wasioja
Ruins of Sawyer School
Moving Old Hibbing
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lost Highway 61
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Le Sueur Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Little Falls Depot
Hanover Bridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The End of the Line in Currie
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Ottawa
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Old Brewery In Preston
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Dead Good Walks
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...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
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...

