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 Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wilder Public Baths
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Apartments
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Greater Minnesota
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The public library in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota was built in 1913 with a $10,000 grant from Andrew...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Orpheum Theater in Duluth, Minnesota, was built on the old Temple Opera House site. The opera...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
District 48 School Near Delano
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Green Lake Mounds
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Red Wing Iron Works
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Wasioja
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Cobden
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hollywood Town Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Little Falls Depot
Visiting Golden Gate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Old School In Wolverton
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome to Hanska
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lost Highway 61
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Le Sueur Theater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Ottawa
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Endion School In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Jordan Brewery Complex
Florence Town Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Dotson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hanover Bridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bend in the River Regional Park
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Finding The Past In Swatara
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Almelund Creamery
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Enter Marlon Brando
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The End of the Line in Currie
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

