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...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
This beauty was built in 1914 and is St Paul’s largest Prairie Style house at just under 3,000...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Townhomes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Built in 1926, the New Ulm Company Service Station is the best remaining example in a series of...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome to Hanska
State Theater In Hutchinson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Milford Monument
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Little Falls Depot
Oxford Mill Ruin
Jordan Brewery Complex
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
District 6 School in New Sweden
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome To Old Wadena
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Green Lake Mounds
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Old School In Wolverton
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Moderne New Ulm Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Red Wing Iron Works
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Sandstone
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Florence Town Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Franconia
The Almelund Creamery
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Wasioja
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Ottawa
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lincoln Park In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The End of the Line in Currie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Visiting Golden Gate
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

