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
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
On March 22, 1836, Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark married Lieutenant Horatio Phillips Van Cleve a few...
The Swinford Apartments
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
District #28 School in Ramsey
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Eight Days in May Protests
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wilder Public Baths
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Lost Highway 61
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Old Brewery In Preston
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome to Hanska
Bend in the River Regional Park
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Old Wadena
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Endion School In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
State Theater In Hutchinson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Old School In Wolverton
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Visiting Golden Gate
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Remembering Quadna Resort
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Munger Terrace In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Wasioja
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Red Wing Iron Works
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The End of the Line in Currie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Dotson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Incline Railway
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hollywood Town Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Little Falls Depot
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Cobden
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Little Marais Inn
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Milford Monument
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Florence Town Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Moving Old Hibbing
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hanover Bridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Franconia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

