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 Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gates of Stonebridge
Robbinsdale Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Eight Days in May Protests
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Arthur Orr was a 286’ steel package freighter built by the Chicago Ship Building Company. She...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Cobden
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Sandstone
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Visiting Golden Gate
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Almelund Creamery
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Le Sueur Theater
Hanover Bridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Florence Town Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Dotson
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Franconia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Ottawa
Green Lake Mounds
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Duluth Homestead Project
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Milford Monument
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Remembering Quadna Resort
The End of the Line in Currie
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Endion School In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Little Falls Depot
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Meyer School In St Augusta
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lost Highway 61
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Old Brewery In Preston
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Red Wing Iron Works
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

