Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Twin Cities Area
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Landmark Center In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wilder Public Baths
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Apartments
Women’s City Club In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Robbinsdale Library
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...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
This gorgeous Second Empire style home in Hastings was built for William Thompson in 1880. Thompson...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Old School In Wolverton
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Sandstone
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Finding The Past In Swatara
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Le Sueur Theater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Moving Old Hibbing
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Dotson
Hollywood Town Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Little Falls Depot
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Cobden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Duluth Homestead Project
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bend in the River Regional Park
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Almelund Creamery
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Ottawa
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hanover Bridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Endion School In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Oxford Mill Ruin
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Endion Depot In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
District 6 School in New Sweden
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lost Highway 61
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Wasioja
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Red Wing Iron Works
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Green Lake Mounds
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
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 Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

