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...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Located in Robbinsdale, the international-style Terrace Theatre opened on May 23, 1951. At the...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Apartments
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Saint Paul Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bend in the River Regional Park is located on the former property of the Graves family. The...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Several buildings were constructed on 30 acres of lakefront property in Two Harbors in the 1920s to...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hanover Bridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Old Brewery In Preston
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Dotson
The Old School In Wolverton
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Le Sueur Theater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
District 6 School in New Sweden
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Florence Town Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Exploring Sandstone
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Visiting Golden Gate
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Wasioja
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hollywood Town Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome to Hanska
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Jordan Brewery Complex
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lost Highway 61
Enter Marlon Brando
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The End of the Line in Currie
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Green Lake Mounds
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Church of the Holy Cross
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Little Marais Inn
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Old Wadena
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Remembering Quadna Resort
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

