Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The McKnight’s Park Avenue mansion was completed in 1892 for a total cost of nearly $36,000...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Landmark Center In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Robbinsdale Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Apartments
The Saint Paul Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Greater Minnesota
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Vermont-native Almond A. White came to Minnesota after the Civil War and settled in Brainerd for a...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Endion School In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
District 48 School Near Delano
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hollywood Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Almelund Creamery
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Cobden
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Wasioja
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Milford Monument
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Jordan Brewery Complex
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Old Wadena
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Sandstone
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hanover Bridge
Welcome to Hanska
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Duluth Homestead Project
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Florence Town Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Old Brewery In Preston
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Franconia
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bend in the River Regional Park
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Little Falls Depot
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Moving Old Hibbing
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Red Wing Iron Works
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Dotson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lost Highway 61
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Enter Marlon Brando
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Ruins of Sawyer School
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...
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...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
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...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

