The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Twin Cities Area
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Construction on the Hamm Building in downtown St Paul began in 1915 and was completed in 1920. The...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wilder Public Baths
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Saint Paul Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
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...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
In 1929, the Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge was established in Lanesboro, Minnesota. Membership...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Florence Town Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Wasioja
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Le Sueur Theater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Oxford Mill Ruin
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Almelund Creamery
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The End of the Line in Currie
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hanover Bridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Visiting Golden Gate
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Church of the Holy Cross
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood Town Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
State Theater In Hutchinson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
District 48 School Near Delano
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Daniel Piper House in Medford
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Ruins of Sawyer School
Endion School In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Franconia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
The Little Marais Inn
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lincoln Park In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

