The Germania Life Insurance Building was built in 1889 at Fourth Street and Minnesota in downtown...
Twin Cities Area
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance Building In...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
At the turn of the twentieth century, newspapers and magazines touted quack cures and healing cults...
The Swinford Apartments
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Landmark Center In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Women’s City Club In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Greater Minnesota
Jordan Brewery Complex
During the 1860s, Jordan had become an early industrial center in Scott County and brewing became...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Visiting Golden Gate
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Ottawa
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
The Milford Monument
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The End of the Line in Currie
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Hollywood Town Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Dotson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Franconia
Little Falls Depot
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome to Hanska
Hanover Bridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
District 48 School Near Delano
The Le Sueur Theater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Sandstone
Remembering Quadna Resort
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Wasioja
The Church of the Holy Cross
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion Depot In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lost Highway 61
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion School In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Old Wadena
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Duluth Homestead Project
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Old School In Wolverton
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Green Lake Mounds
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Cobden
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac 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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
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...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

