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
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School opened in Minneapolis in 1932. The school was named after Mary...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Robbinsdale Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Townhomes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Moderne New Ulm Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lost Highway 61
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hanover Bridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Visiting Golden Gate
Oxford Mill Ruin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Cobden
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Endion School In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Little Falls Depot
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Old Brewery In Preston
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Almond White and the Motley Castle
District 48 School Near Delano
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Little Marais Inn
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Milford Monument
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Green Lake Mounds
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Franconia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hollywood Town Hall
Florence Town Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Sandstone
The Le Sueur Theater
Enter Marlon Brando
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The End of the Line in Currie
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Meyer School In St Augusta
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Endion Depot In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bend in the River Regional Park
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

