As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
Twin Cities Area
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
For many at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus, May 9, 1972 started out like any other...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Apartments
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wilder Public Baths
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Greater Minnesota
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Harry A. Subilia was an Italian immigrant who opened the first distillery in New Ulm, Minnesota. He...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Visiting Golden Gate
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Moderne New Ulm Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Milford Monument
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Little Marais Inn
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Green Lake Mounds
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Franconia
Remembering Quadna Resort
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bend in the River Regional Park
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Little Falls Depot
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Duluth Homestead Project
Enter Marlon Brando
Moving Old Hibbing
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Hanover Bridge
Welcome to Hanska
Old Brewery In Preston
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lost Highway 61
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Old School In Wolverton
The Almelund Creamery
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Cobden
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Le Sueur Theater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jordan Brewery Complex
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Dotson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Florence Town Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
District 48 School Near Delano
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Red Wing Iron Works
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
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...

