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...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Eight Days in May Protests
Robbinsdale Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Townhomes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Apartments
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Red Wing Iron Works
Red Wing Iron Works was founded in 1866 by brothers Benjamin and Daniel Densmore. They found a...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Moving Old Hibbing
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Milford Monument
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
District 48 School Near Delano
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Jordan Brewery Complex
State Theater In Hutchinson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome to Hanska
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Endion School In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Moderne New Ulm Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Ottawa
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Wasioja
Bend in the River Regional Park
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Little Marais Inn
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Meyer School In St Augusta
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Church of the Holy Cross
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Oxford Mill Ruin
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Green Lake Mounds
Endion Depot In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Old School In Wolverton
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lost Highway 61
The Duluth Homestead Project
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Franconia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Little Falls Depot
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hollywood Town Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Le Sueur Theater
Hanover Bridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
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...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...

