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...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Eight Days in May Protests
Robbinsdale Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
District #28 School in Ramsey
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Landmark Center In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Apartments
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Shortly after midnight on November 28, 1905, the Crescent City dropped anchor in 90-feet of water...
Hollywood Town Hall
The Carver County District Number 76 School was built in 1906 and opened for classes in the fall of...
Little Falls Depot
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
The New Ulm Company Service Station
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Sandstone
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Little Marais Inn
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lost Highway 61
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
State Theater In Hutchinson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Dotson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Florence Town Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The End of the Line in Currie
Red Wing Iron Works
Hanover Bridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
The Old School In Wolverton
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Franconia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Enter Marlon Brando
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
District 48 School Near Delano
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Moving Old Hibbing
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Milford Monument
Historic Wasioja
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Endion School In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Ottawa
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Green Lake Mounds
The Le Sueur Theater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Endion Depot In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome to Hanska
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Almelund Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
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 The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

