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
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
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...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Englanders who settled in the St Croix Valley were drawn there because of the thick, wild...
The Le Sueur Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Franconia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Florence Town Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Ruins of Sawyer School
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lost Highway 61
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Dotson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Old Brewery In Preston
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Little Marais Inn
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Sandstone
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hanover Bridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Wasioja
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
State Theater In Hutchinson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Milford Monument
Green Lake Mounds
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Remembering Quadna Resort
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Almelund Creamery
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
District 48 School Near Delano
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moving Old Hibbing
Enter Marlon Brando
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Endion School In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Old School In Wolverton
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Cobden
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Visiting Golden Gate
Bend in the River Regional Park
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The End of the Line in Currie
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

