Built in 1913, the Charles and Grace Parker House was designed by the nationally-prominent Prairie...
Twin Cities Area
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wilder Public Baths
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
District #28 School in Ramsey
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel 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...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Little Marais Inn
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Ottawa
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Wasioja
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Florence Town Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Visiting Golden Gate
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Old Wadena
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Moving Old Hibbing
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Remembering Quadna Resort
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The End of the Line in Currie
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
District 48 School Near Delano
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Little Falls Depot
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Old School In Wolverton
Enter Marlon Brando
Lost Highway 61
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Sandstone
Green Lake Mounds
Red Wing Iron Works
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
State Theater In Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Church of the Holy Cross
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Franconia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Endion Depot In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Ruins of Sawyer School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Almelund Creamery
District 6 School in New Sweden
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
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...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown