Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Twin Cities Area
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Robbinsdale Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wilder Public Baths
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
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...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hollywood Town Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Old Brewery In Preston
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Endion Depot In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Remembering Quadna Resort
Little Falls Depot
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Ottawa
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Almelund Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Dotson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Milford Monument
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Florence Town Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
District 6 School in New Sweden
Moderne New Ulm Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lost Highway 61
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Sandstone
The Le Sueur Theater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Green Lake Mounds
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bend in the River Regional Park
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Enter Marlon Brando
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Franconia
Moving Old Hibbing
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
District 48 School Near Delano
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

