As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
Twin Cities Area
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Townhomes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Robbinsdale Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Apartments
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wilder Public Baths
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Greater Minnesota
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Bally Blacksmith Shop opened in 1911 when Sam Bally left his job at a sawmill to open his own...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Archibald mill is located on the banks of the Cannon River in Dundas. Brothers John S. and...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Duluth Homestead Project
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Old Wadena
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Ottawa
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
District 48 School Near Delano
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome to Hanska
Remembering Quadna Resort
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Cobden
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The End of the Line in Currie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Dotson
Moving Old Hibbing
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood Town Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Green Lake Mounds
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Little Falls Depot
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
State Theater In Hutchinson
Visiting Golden Gate
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hanover Bridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Franconia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion School In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
Jordan Brewery Complex
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Old Brewery In Preston
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Almelund Creamery
Enter Marlon Brando
Lost Highway 61
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Old School In Wolverton
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
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...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

