Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Twin Cities Area
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Robbinsdale Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Apartments
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Greater Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Arthur Orr was a 286’ steel package freighter built by the Chicago Ship Building Company. She...
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Florence Town Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bend in the River Regional Park
Little Falls Depot
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Old School In Wolverton
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Hanover Bridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Dotson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
District 48 School Near Delano
The Duluth Homestead Project
Green Lake Mounds
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lost Highway 61
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Oxford Mill Ruin
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Le Sueur Theater
Endion School In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Church of the Holy Cross
Red Wing Iron Works
Moving Old Hibbing
Endion Depot In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Park In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
State Theater In Hutchinson
Jordan Brewery Complex
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Franconia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The End of the Line in Currie
Meyer School In St Augusta
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Milford Monument
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Old Wadena
Daniel Piper House in Medford
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Ottawa
Hollywood Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
District 6 School in New Sweden
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Little Marais Inn
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
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
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

