Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Twin Cities Area
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gates of Stonebridge
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Townhomes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Remembering Quadna Resort
When I arrived at the Quadna Resort, I felt like I’d stepped back in time. Although the lodge...
Visiting Golden Gate
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Sandstone
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Ottawa
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hanover Bridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The End of the Line in Currie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Little Falls Depot
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Finding The Past In Swatara
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
District 48 School Near Delano
Florence Town Hall
Historic Wasioja
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Old School In Wolverton
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Church of the Holy Cross
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Old Wadena
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Moving Old Hibbing
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Little Marais Inn
Hollywood Town Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Endion School In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Cobden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Old Brewery In Preston
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Randall Cooperative Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Franconia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
The Milford Monument
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
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...

