As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
Twin Cities Area
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Townhomes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Eight Days in May Protests
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George Neuwirth operated a popular bowling alley and bar throughout the 1930s and 1940s in New Ulm...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Moderne New Ulm Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
District 6 School in New Sweden
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Church of the Holy Cross
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Wasioja
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Milford Monument
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Dotson
The Old School In Wolverton
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Jordan Brewery Complex
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Almelund Creamery
The End of the Line in Currie
Little Falls Depot
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
The Little Marais Inn
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Sandstone
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lost Highway 61
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Red Wing Iron Works
Endion Depot In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Welcome to Hanska
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Visiting Golden Gate
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Cobden
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Oxford Mill Ruin
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
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...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...

