The Germania Life Insurance Building was built in 1889 at Fourth Street and Minnesota in downtown...
Twin Cities Area
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance Building In...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s Guardians of Health
The Washburn water tower sits on a hill in the heart of the Washburn Park (commonly known as...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Townhomes
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Apartments
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Munger Terrace has been a landmark in Duluth’s Central Hillside neighborhood since the building was...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Old Wadena
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hollywood Town Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Red Wing Iron Works
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The End of the Line in Currie
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Little Marais Inn
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Franconia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hanover Bridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lost Highway 61
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Jordan Brewery Complex
Florence Town Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Church of the Holy Cross
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Le Sueur Theater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Dotson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Visiting Golden Gate
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Cobden
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Enter Marlon Brando
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Almelund Creamery
Endion School In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Duluth Homestead Project
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Wasioja
Little Falls Depot
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
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...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
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...

