Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Twin Cities Area
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium was the first medical hospital in Anoka, Minnesota. Dr. James F. Kline opened the...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wilder Public Baths
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Cobden
Cobden, Minnesota, was incorporated in 1905. The little railroad town included a bank, creamery...
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Church of the Holy Cross in Dundas is a Gothic-style church built in 1868. John S. Archibald of...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lost Highway 61
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Dotson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Old School In Wolverton
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood Town Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Randall Cooperative Creamery
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Ottawa
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Wasioja
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hanover Bridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Duluth Homestead Project
Endion School In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Red Wing Iron Works
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bend in the River Regional Park
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Sandstone
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Visiting Golden Gate
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Jordan Brewery Complex
District 48 School Near Delano
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
The Milford Monument
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Green Lake Mounds
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Little Falls Depot
The Little Marais Inn
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Franconia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Meyer School In St Augusta
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

