In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
In March 1963, the Twin Cities were rocked by a shocking and brutal crime – the murder of Carol...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wilder Public Baths
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Apartments
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Greater Minnesota
Welcome to Hanska
Hanska was supposed to be a quick stop on my way from Mankato to Sleepy Eye. I planned to get a few...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Le Sueur Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Enter Marlon Brando
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Milford Monument
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jordan Brewery Complex
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Little Falls Depot
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Visiting Golden Gate
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Old School In Wolverton
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Cobden
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Little Marais Inn
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Wasioja
Endion School In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
State Theater In Hutchinson
The End of the Line in Currie
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Almond White and the Motley Castle
District 48 School Near Delano
Remembering Quadna Resort
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Church of the Holy Cross
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Florence Town Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lost Highway 61
Old Brewery In Preston
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lincoln Park In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Dotson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Duluth Homestead Project
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
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...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
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...

