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...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Built in 1913, the Charles and Grace Parker House was designed by the nationally-prominent Prairie...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Robbinsdale Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Early settler and local banker Edson Smith built this French Second Empire style home for his...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Sandstone
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
State Theater In Hutchinson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Dotson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
District 48 School Near Delano
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Wasioja
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Church of the Holy Cross
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Endion School In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Visiting Golden Gate
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
District 6 School in New Sweden
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Florence Town Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Milford Monument
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lost Highway 61
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Enter Marlon Brando
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood Town Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Franconia
Little Falls Depot
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Ottawa
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome to Hanska
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The End of the Line in Currie
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Moving Old Hibbing
The Old School In Wolverton
Moderne New Ulm Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Red Wing Iron Works
Oxford Mill Ruin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bend in the River Regional Park
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Old Brewery In Preston
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

