As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
Twin Cities Area
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
District #28 School in Ramsey
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Townhomes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Orpheum Theater in Duluth, Minnesota, was built on the old Temple Opera House site. The opera...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Sandstone
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Little Marais Inn
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Milford Monument
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Moving Old Hibbing
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hollywood Town Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Hanover Bridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Almelund Creamery
Endion School In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
District 48 School Near Delano
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
District 6 School in New Sweden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Old School In Wolverton
Old Brewery In Preston
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The End of the Line in Currie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Endion Depot In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Wasioja
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Duluth Homestead Project
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Enter Marlon Brando
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Dotson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Wandering Around The Toimi School
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome to Hanska
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Meyer School In St Augusta
Green Lake Mounds
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

