Built in 1913, the Charles and Grace Parker House was designed by the nationally-prominent Prairie...
Twin Cities Area
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gates of Stonebridge
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Robbinsdale Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Apartments
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The public library in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota was built in 1913 with a $10,000 grant from Andrew...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The End of the Line in Currie
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Bend in the River Regional Park
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Le Sueur Theater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome to Hanska
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Old School In Wolverton
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Wasioja
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
State Theater In Hutchinson
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lost Highway 61
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Ottawa
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Ruins of Sawyer School
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moving Old Hibbing
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hanover Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Oxford Mill Ruin
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Endion School In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Florence Town Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Cobden
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Little Marais Inn
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Visiting Golden Gate
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Franconia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Dotson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hollywood Town Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Little Falls Depot
Jordan Brewery Complex
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Enter Marlon Brando
Old Brewery In Preston
District 6 School in New Sweden
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
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...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

