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

