The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was founded in January 1897. The church...
Twin Cities Area
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wilder Public Baths
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Robbinsdale Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Little Marais Inn
District 6 School in New Sweden
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Cobden
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
State Theater In Hutchinson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Ottawa
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Milford Monument
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lost Highway 61
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Visiting Golden Gate
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Florence Town Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hanover Bridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome to Hanska
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Dotson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Wasioja
Enter Marlon Brando
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Old Wadena
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The End of the Line in Currie
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Franconia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Moving Old Hibbing
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Sandstone
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Meyer School In St Augusta
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood Town Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown