As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
Twin Cities Area
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
All of Theodore and Louise Hamm’s children stayed close to their family home and business. Most...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wilder Public Baths
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Robbinsdale Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Apartments
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gates of Stonebridge
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Women’s City Club In St Paul
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...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Moving Old Hibbing
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Endion School In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Hollywood Town Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Ottawa
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The End of the Line in Currie
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Moderne New Ulm Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Old School In Wolverton
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Sandstone
Meyer School In St Augusta
Florence Town Hall
The Milford Monument
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Visiting Golden Gate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
District 48 School Near Delano
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lost Highway 61
Old Brewery In Preston
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Remembering Quadna Resort
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Hanover Bridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Jordan Brewery Complex
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bend in the River Regional Park
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Dotson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Wasioja
The Little Marais Inn
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
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...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

