Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Twin Cities Area
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gates of Stonebridge
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wilder Public Baths
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Greater Minnesota
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
This gorgeous Second Empire style home in Hastings was built for William Thompson in 1880. Thompson...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Endion School In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Le Sueur Theater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Endion Depot In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
District 48 School Near Delano
Moderne New Ulm Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Little Falls Depot
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome to Hanska
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Red Wing Iron Works
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Franconia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Old Brewery In Preston
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Visiting Golden Gate
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The New Ulm Company Service Station
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Ottawa
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Meyer School In St Augusta
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Wasioja
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lost Highway 61
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Ruins of Sawyer School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Sandstone
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bend in the River Regional Park
The End of the Line in Currie
The Little Marais Inn
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Enter Marlon Brando
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Almelund Creamery
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Cobden
State Theater In Hutchinson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hollywood Town Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Jordan Brewery Complex
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
Green Lake Mounds
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Milford Monument
Lundring Service Station in Canby
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...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

