The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
Twin Cities Area
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance Building In...
The Germania Life Insurance Building was built in 1889 at Fourth Street and Minnesota in downtown...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wilder Public Baths
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Apartments
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Robbinsdale Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Greater Minnesota
Hanover Bridge
Hanover Bridge was constructed by the Morse Bridge Company of Youngstown, Ohio in 1885. The single...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Milford Monument
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Red Wing Iron Works
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Finding The Past In Swatara
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
Endion Depot In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Florence Town Hall
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Cobden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood Town Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome to Hanska
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Little Falls Depot
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Old School In Wolverton
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Franconia
The Little Marais Inn
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Almelund Creamery
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Moving Old Hibbing
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Green Lake Mounds
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Daniel Piper House in Medford
District 48 School Near Delano
Remembering Quadna Resort
Visiting Golden Gate
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Duluth Homestead Project
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Old Wadena
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Moderne New Ulm Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Enter Marlon Brando
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Le Sueur Theater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Endion School In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who donโt...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

