University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
Twin Cities Area
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Apartments
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Robbinsdale Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Greater Minnesota
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Around the turn of the twentieth century, Nicollet County had eight rural crossroads hamlets. While...
Remembering Quadna Resort
When I arrived at the Quadna Resort, I felt like I’d stepped back in time. Although the lodge...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Meyer School In St Augusta
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
District 48 School Near Delano
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Florence Town Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Milford Monument
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
District 6 School in New Sweden
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome to Hanska
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Oxford Mill Ruin
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Cobden
Red Wing Iron Works
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Endion School In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Old Wadena
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Franconia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hanover Bridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Almelund Creamery
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Dotson
The End of the Line in Currie
Ruins of Sawyer School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Little Falls Depot
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Sandstone
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Old Brewery In Preston
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Le Sueur Theater
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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 The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

