This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
Twin Cities Area
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Wilder Public Baths
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Landmark Center In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Greater Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
When I arrived at the Quadna Resort, I felt like I’d stepped back in time. Although the lodge...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Ottawa
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Old School In Wolverton
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Endion School In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Enter Marlon Brando
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Church of the Holy Cross
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The End of the Line in Currie
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Almelund Creamery
The Milford Monument
The Little Marais Inn
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hollywood Town Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bend in the River Regional Park
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Lost Highway 61
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
District 48 School Near Delano
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Moving Old Hibbing
Green Lake Mounds
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hanover Bridge
Little Falls Depot
Oxford Mill Ruin
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Franconia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
State Theater In Hutchinson
Florence Town Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
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 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...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

