In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Apartments
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Cobden
Cobden, Minnesota, was incorporated in 1905. The little railroad town included a bank, creamery...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Visiting Golden Gate
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Endion School In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Le Sueur Theater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Almelund Creamery
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Oxford Mill Ruin
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Little Marais Inn
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hollywood Town Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
District 48 School Near Delano
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Dotson
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Remembering Quadna Resort
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Meyer School In St Augusta
Green Lake Mounds
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Milford Monument
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Welcome to Hanska
Endion Depot In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Franconia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Taylor House In Le Sueur
State Theater In Hutchinson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moderne New Ulm Library
Enter Marlon Brando
The Church of the Holy Cross
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lost Highway 61
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

