University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
Twin Cities Area
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Townhomes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Apartments
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Eight Days in May Protests
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Historic Wasioja
Wasioja, Minnesota, was a thriving community in the 1850s and 1860s. The village was settled in...
Little Falls Depot
Construction started on the railroad depot in Little Falls in 1899. It was designed by Cass Gilbert...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Little Marais Inn
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Moving Old Hibbing
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Sandstone
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Remembering Quadna Resort
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Cobden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Old Wadena
District 6 School in New Sweden
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hanover Bridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Enter Marlon Brando
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Endion Depot In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Old School In Wolverton
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Visiting Golden Gate
Green Lake Mounds
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
The Le Sueur Theater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Florence Town Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome to Hanska
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Dotson
Bend in the River Regional Park
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Old Brewery In Preston
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Franconia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
State Theater In Hutchinson
Endion School In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Finding The Past In Swatara
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
District 48 School Near Delano
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown