St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
Twin Cities Area
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gates of Stonebridge
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Landmark Center In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Townhomes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Wilder Public Baths
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Greater Minnesota
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Rush City Creamery Cooperative was organized in 1907 by a group of local dairy farmers. After...
The End of the Line in Currie
In 1899, the Des Moines Valley Railway Company began work on a plan to extend their rail line in...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Ruins of Sawyer School
Visiting Golden Gate
The Almelund Creamery
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Remembering Quadna Resort
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion School In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion Depot In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Dotson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Le Sueur Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome to Hanska
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Meyer School In St Augusta
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Wasioja
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Moving Old Hibbing
Oxford Mill Ruin
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Cobden
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Little Marais Inn
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Florence Town Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Old Wadena
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Old Brewery In Preston
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hanover Bridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Duluth Homestead Project
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Milford Monument
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
State Theater In Hutchinson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
District 48 School Near Delano
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Sandstone
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Jordan Brewery Complex
Green Lake Mounds
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Franconia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Ottawa
Little Falls Depot
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
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...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...

