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
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Robbinsdale Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Townhomes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Historic Wasioja
Wasioja, Minnesota, was a thriving community in the 1850s and 1860s. The village was settled in...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Red Wing Iron Works
The Almelund Creamery
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome to Hanska
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Ottawa
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Dotson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Oxford Mill Ruin
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Old School In Wolverton
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moving Old Hibbing
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Sandstone
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Le Sueur Theater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
District 6 School in New Sweden
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Old Wadena
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Franconia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Jordan Brewery Complex
Little Falls Depot
Endion Depot In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Endion School In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Milford Monument
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Florence Town Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
State Theater In Hutchinson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Meyer School In St Augusta
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hanover Bridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
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?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...

