In 1899, the Twin City Rapid Transit Company extended its reach of their streetcars to the...
Twin Cities Area
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wilder Public Baths
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Apartments
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The childhood home of children’s book author and illustrator Wanda Gag was built in New Ulm...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Old Brewery In Preston
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Milford Monument
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Franconia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Little Falls Depot
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Dotson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hanover Bridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bend in the River Regional Park
Enter Marlon Brando
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Old Wadena
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Old School In Wolverton
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Sandstone
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
State Theater In Hutchinson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering Quadna Resort
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Jordan Brewery Complex
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Wasioja
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Red Wing Iron Works
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Cobden
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Ottawa
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hollywood Town Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Oxford Mill Ruin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Almelund Creamery
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lost Highway 61
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Duluth Homestead Project
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The End of the Line in Currie
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
District 48 School Near Delano
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...

