As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
Twin Cities Area
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Built in 1913, the Charles and Grace Parker House was designed by the nationally-prominent Prairie...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wilder Public Baths
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Robbinsdale Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Washington County District No. 2 was formed in 1857 for the growing number of children moving into...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Franconia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Finding The Past In Swatara
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Florence Town Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Almelund Creamery
Meyer School In St Augusta
Old Brewery In Preston
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Endion School In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome to Hanska
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Old School In Wolverton
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Old Wadena
State Theater In Hutchinson
Little Falls Depot
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Remembering Quadna Resort
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Little Marais Inn
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood Town Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lost Highway 61
Visiting Golden Gate
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The End of the Line in Currie
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Wasioja
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Dotson
The Church of the Holy Cross
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Cobden
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
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...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn 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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

