In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Apartments
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wilder Public Baths
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Old Wadena
The townsite now known as Old Wadena was located on the Crow Wing River between the mouths of the...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Sandstone
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Le Sueur Theater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Florence Town Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome to Hanska
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Almelund Creamery
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Milford Monument
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lost Highway 61
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Jordan Brewery Complex
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Dotson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Finding The Past In Swatara
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hanover Bridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion Depot In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Moving Old Hibbing
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hollywood Town Hall
Little Falls Depot
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Red Wing Iron Works
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Franconia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Ottawa
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
District 48 School Near Delano
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Old School In Wolverton
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...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...

