The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Twin Cities Area
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Townhomes
Robbinsdale Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wilder Public Baths
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Apartments
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Pine Tree Lumber Company was established in Little Falls in 1890. Located on the banks of the...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Franconia
The Old School In Wolverton
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The End of the Line in Currie
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Dotson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
State Theater In Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lost Highway 61
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Old Brewery In Preston
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Finding The Past In Swatara
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
District 48 School Near Delano
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Visiting Golden Gate
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Ottawa
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome to Hanska
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Old Wadena
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Endion School In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Remembering Quadna Resort
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Enter Marlon Brando
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Little Marais Inn
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Almelund Creamery
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Le Sueur Theater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bend in the River Regional Park
Moving Old Hibbing
The Milford Monument
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hanover Bridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood Town Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

