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
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
In March 1963, the Twin Cities were rocked by a shocking and brutal crime – the murder of Carol...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wilder Public Baths
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Saint Paul Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gates of Stonebridge
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Apartments
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Eight Days in May Protests
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two weeks after the James–Younger Gang raided Northfield the gang appeared at the farm of Ole...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Old School In Wolverton
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome to Hanska
The End of the Line in Currie
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lundring Service Station in Canby
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Old Brewery In Preston
Ruins of Sawyer School
State Theater In Hutchinson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hollywood Town Hall
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Dotson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Old Wadena
District 6 School in New Sweden
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Green Lake Mounds
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Le Sueur Theater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
District 48 School Near Delano
Jordan Brewery Complex
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
The Milford Monument
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hanover Bridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Franconia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Red Wing Iron Works
Enter Marlon Brando
Lost Highway 61
Visiting Golden Gate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
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...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

