St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
Twin Cities Area
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of Food
Betty Crocker was born in a boardroom of The Washburn-Crosby Company of Minneapolis in 1921. A...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wilder Public Baths
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Apartments
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Robbinsdale Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Wasioja
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The New Ulm Company Service Station
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Ruins of Sawyer School
Oxford Mill Ruin
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Little Falls Depot
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Church of the Holy Cross
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Le Sueur Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion School In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Enter Marlon Brando
Old Brewery In Preston
Visiting Golden Gate
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Little Marais Inn
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Red Wing Iron Works
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Almelund Creamery
Hollywood Town Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Sandstone
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
State Theater In Hutchinson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Dotson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
District 48 School Near Delano
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Moving Old Hibbing
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Ottawa
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Cobden
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome to Hanska
The End of the Line in Currie
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

