Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium was the first medical hospital in Anoka, Minnesota. Dr. James F. Kline opened the...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Apartments
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Eight Days in May Protests
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Robbinsdale Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Moderne New Ulm Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hanover Bridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Almelund Creamery
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Ottawa
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Little Falls Depot
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lost Highway 61
The Le Sueur Theater
Old Brewery In Preston
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
District 48 School Near Delano
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Franconia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hollywood Town Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
The Church of the Holy Cross
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Endion School In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Wasioja
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Little Marais Inn
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Sandstone
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Enter Marlon Brando
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Finding The Past In Swatara
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Red Wing Iron Works
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Florence Town Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Ruins of Sawyer School
Moving Old Hibbing
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion Depot In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Milford Monument
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
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...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

