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
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wilder Public Baths
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Townhomes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Apartments
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Archibald mill is located on the banks of the Cannon River in Dundas. Brothers John S. and...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome to Hanska
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The End of the Line in Currie
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hanover Bridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Endion School In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Florence Town Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Finding The Past In Swatara
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Little Marais Inn
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Enter Marlon Brando
The Old School In Wolverton
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood Town Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Meyer School In St Augusta
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lost Highway 61
Green Lake Mounds
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Dotson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Little Falls Depot
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Milford Monument
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Almelund Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Visiting Golden Gate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Old Wadena
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Red Wing Iron Works
District 48 School Near Delano
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

