St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
Twin Cities Area
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Saint Paul Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Townhomes
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Apartments
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Robbinsdale Library
Greater Minnesota
Hanover Bridge
Hanover Bridge was constructed by the Morse Bridge Company of Youngstown, Ohio in 1885. The single...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District Number 11 in McLeod County was first organized in 1865 to serve the predominantly Czech...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Franconia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Ruins of Sawyer School
Florence Town Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Almelund Creamery
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Sandstone
District 6 School in New Sweden
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lost Highway 61
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Cobden
The Duluth Homestead Project
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
District 48 School Near Delano
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Milford Monument
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Old School In Wolverton
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome to Hanska
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
Little Falls Depot
Endion School In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
State Theater In Hutchinson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Meyer School In St Augusta
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The End of the Line in Currie
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Jordan Brewery Complex
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Moving Old Hibbing
Endion Depot In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Wasioja
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Old Brewery In Preston
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hollywood Town Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Moderne New Ulm Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
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...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

