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...
Wilder Public Baths
It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Women’s City Club In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Robbinsdale Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Greater Minnesota
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Bally Blacksmith Shop opened in 1911 when Sam Bally left his job at a sawmill to open his own...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Red Wing Iron Works
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Old School In Wolverton
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
State Theater In Hutchinson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Finding The Past In Swatara
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Little Falls Depot
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
District 48 School Near Delano
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Visiting Golden Gate
Moving Old Hibbing
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Florence Town Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Enter Marlon Brando
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Old Brewery In Preston
The Le Sueur Theater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Green Lake Mounds
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Oxford Mill Ruin
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Church of the Holy Cross
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Milford Monument
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lost Highway 61
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Old Wadena
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Wasioja
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Cobden
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Dotson
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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...
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...

