Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the stateโs empire builders, St. Paulโs elite built their...
Twin Cities Area
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
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 Swinford Apartments
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Landmark Center In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wilder Public Baths
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
Robbinsdale Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
In 1909, just eight years after this school was built in Sandstone, lightning struck. Sadly, the...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The George and Charlotte Crosby house is located just a few blocks east of downtown Duluth...
The Old School In Wolverton
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Meyer School In St Augusta
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hollywood Town Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Old Brewery In Preston
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Little Marais Inn
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Milford Monument
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Visiting Golden Gate
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Sandstone
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Almelund Creamery
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Ottawa
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Endion Depot In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
District 48 School Near Delano
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Cobden
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Jordan Brewery Complex
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Remembering Quadna Resort
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Little Falls Depot
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome to Hanska
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Enter Marlon Brando
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Le Sueur Theater
Endion School In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Old Wadena
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Franconia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The End of the Line in Currie
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butlerโs interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

