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...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Today, The Blaisdell is a wedding and event venue with cozy places to gather with your nearest and...
The Swinford Townhomes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wilder Public Baths
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Apartments
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Robbinsdale Library
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
In 1872, Joseph Schmucker took over operation of Friton Brewery, which was the first brewery to...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Franconia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Church of the Holy Cross
Old Brewery In Preston
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Milford Monument
Historic Wasioja
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Cobden
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Green Lake Mounds
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Finding The Past In Swatara
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Sandstone
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Red Wing Iron Works
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Ottawa
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Visiting Golden Gate
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome to Hanska
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Remembering Quadna Resort
Endion School In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Florence Town Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Ruins of Sawyer School
Little Falls Depot
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Little Marais Inn
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lundring Service Station in Canby
District 48 School Near Delano
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Dotson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The End of the Line in Currie
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Moving Old Hibbing
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

