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...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Located in Robbinsdale, the international-style Terrace Theatre opened on May 23, 1951. At the...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Townhomes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gates of Stonebridge
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Greater Minnesota
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
September 24, 1909 At 4:20 a.m., an off-duty worker at the Fergus Falls City Light Station woke up...
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
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The End of the Line in Currie
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Florence Town Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Franconia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Milford Monument
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Enter Marlon Brando
State Theater In Hutchinson
Little Falls Depot
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lost Highway 61
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Finding The Past In Swatara
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Red Wing Iron Works
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome to Hanska
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hanover Bridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Cobden
Meyer School In St Augusta
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Moving Old Hibbing
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Old School In Wolverton
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Little Marais Inn
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Wasioja
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
District 48 School Near Delano
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hollywood Town Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Old Brewery In Preston
Endion School In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Green Lake Mounds
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

