If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
Twin Cities Area
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
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...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Robbinsdale Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gates of Stonebridge
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
For several years, Tenney held the distinction of being Minnesota’s smallest town. The 2010 census...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hollywood Town Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The New Ulm Company Service Station
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Cobden
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Dotson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Jordan Brewery Complex
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
District 48 School Near Delano
Enter Marlon Brando
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Old Wadena
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Visiting Golden Gate
Moving Old Hibbing
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Endion School In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Milford Monument
Lost Highway 61
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Old School In Wolverton
Moderne New Ulm Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Duluth Homestead Project
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome to Hanska
Florence Town Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Finding The Past In Swatara
Old Brewery In Preston
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Green Lake Mounds
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Franconia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Wasioja
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Ottawa
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hanover Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
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...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland 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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

