Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Twin Cities Area
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
The Swinford Townhomes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gates of Stonebridge
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Eight Days in May Protests
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wilder Public Baths
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Cobden
Cobden, Minnesota, was incorporated in 1905. The little railroad town included a bank, creamery...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The District Number 50 school in Essig, Minnesota, opened in 1912. Children attend this one-room...
The End of the Line in Currie
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion School In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Green Lake Mounds
Little Falls Depot
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Little Marais Inn
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Finding The Past In Swatara
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Milford Monument
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring Sandstone
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Oxford Mill Ruin
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome to Hanska
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Visiting Golden Gate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Red Wing Iron Works
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lost Highway 61
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Old School In Wolverton
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Wasioja
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Old Brewery In Preston
Enter Marlon Brando
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Moderne New Ulm Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Florence Town Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Franconia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Hanover Bridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
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...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

