Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Twin Cities Area
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wilder Public Baths
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Before the Interstate Bridge was built between Duluth and Superior in the late-1890s, the only way...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Florence Town Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Moderne New Ulm Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Dotson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Milford Monument
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome to Hanska
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Almelund Creamery
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Wasioja
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Sandstone
Enter Marlon Brando
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Green Lake Mounds
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lost Highway 61
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Old Brewery In Preston
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Le Sueur Theater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Little Falls Depot
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Franconia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bend in the River Regional Park
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
District 48 School Near Delano
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Church of the Holy Cross
Endion School In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hanover Bridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

