In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
Twin Cities Area
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gates of Stonebridge
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Apartments
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wilder Public Baths
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Robbinsdale Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Greater Minnesota
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Settled in 1854 by Pennsylvania native Benjamin Spencer, Spencer Brook was one of the first...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Old Brewery In Preston
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Visiting Golden Gate
Enter Marlon Brando
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Remembering Quadna Resort
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bend in the River Regional Park
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Milford Monument
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Finding The Past In Swatara
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lost Highway 61
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
The End of the Line in Currie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Little Marais Inn
District 48 School Near Delano
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Le Sueur Theater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood Town Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Florence Town Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Dotson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Ottawa
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Wasioja
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Cobden
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Sandstone
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome to Hanska
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The New Ulm Company Service Station
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Duluth Homestead Project
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Moving Old Hibbing
Moderne New Ulm Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Old School In Wolverton
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

