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...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Landmark Center In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
District #28 School in Ramsey
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Eight Days in May Protests
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Greater Minnesota
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Built in 1898, the West Riverside School was originally known as District #38 School. Isanti County...
Meyer School In St Augusta
The original District 35 (Meyer) school was a log structure built around 1868. As the population of...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Franconia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Old School In Wolverton
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Almelund Creamery
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Endion School In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Milford Monument
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Wasioja
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Red Wing Iron Works
Jordan Brewery Complex
The End of the Line in Currie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Florence Town Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hanover Bridge
Little Falls Depot
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Ottawa
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bend in the River Regional Park
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lost Highway 61
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Visiting Golden Gate
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Endion Depot In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Old Brewery In Preston
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Sandstone
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
District 48 School Near Delano
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hollywood Town Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Green Lake Mounds
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Ruins of Sawyer School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Remembering Quadna Resort
Oxford Mill Ruin
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...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...

