Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the stateโs empire builders, St. Paulโs elite built their...
Twin Cities Area
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Originally named the Palazzo, the Colonnade Hotel opened on St. Peter Street in Saint Paul in 1888...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wilder Public Baths
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Townhomes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Apartments
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
This old stone chapel was built at the Sunrise Funeral Home and Cemetery in 1949. Located in...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lincoln Park In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The End of the Line in Currie
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Milford Monument
Bend in the River Regional Park
Little Falls Depot
Old Brewery In Preston
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Enter Marlon Brando
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Dotson
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Remembering Quadna Resort
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Endion Depot In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Red Wing Iron Works
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Green Lake Mounds
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Ottawa
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Franconia
The Almelund Creamery
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hanover Bridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Old School In Wolverton
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Florence Town Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Wasioja
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Oxford Mill Ruin
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 48 School Near Delano
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Meyer School In St Augusta
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Le Sueur Theater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome to Hanska
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Endion School In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Cobden
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
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...
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesotaโs biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...

