In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Robbinsdale Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Townhomes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
District #28 School in Ramsey
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Bally Blacksmith Shop opened in 1911 when Sam Bally left his job at a sawmill to open his own...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
District 6 School in New Sweden
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Ottawa
Bend in the River Regional Park
Moderne New Ulm Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Cobden
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Church of the Holy Cross
The End of the Line in Currie
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Little Falls Depot
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Wasioja
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Visiting Golden Gate
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Endion School In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Moving Old Hibbing
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Green Lake Mounds
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion Depot In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Old School In Wolverton
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hollywood Town Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Enter Marlon Brando
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The New Ulm Company Service Station
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Franconia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
State Theater In Hutchinson
Florence Town Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Old Brewery In Preston
Red Wing Iron Works
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Ruins of Sawyer School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hanover Bridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Milford Monument
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
The Little Marais Inn
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...

