The St Paul Hotel has been the backbone of charm and elegance in downtown St Paul since it opened...
Twin Cities Area
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Apartments
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Sandstone
The city of Sandstone, Minnesota, was platted and incorporated in 1887. The area was a major hub...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
In 1872, Joseph Schmucker took over operation of Friton Brewery, which was the first brewery to...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Franconia
The End of the Line in Currie
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
District 48 School Near Delano
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Old Wadena
Moderne New Ulm Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Brewery In Preston
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Endion School In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Old School In Wolverton
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Little Marais Inn
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Almelund Creamery
Green Lake Mounds
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lost Highway 61
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
District 6 School in New Sweden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome to Hanska
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Little Falls Depot
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Milford Monument
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Ottawa
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Visiting Golden Gate
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Endion Depot In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hanover Bridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
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...
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...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

