The St Paul Hotel has been the backbone of charm and elegance in downtown St Paul since it opened...
Twin Cities Area
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Lowry Hotel opened in 1927 and was 12 floors of pure glamour. An addition was made in 1930 to...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Townhomes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
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...
The End of the Line in Currie
In 1899, the Des Moines Valley Railway Company began work on a plan to extend their rail line in...
Moving Old Hibbing
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Little Falls Depot
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lost Highway 61
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
District 48 School Near Delano
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Duluth Homestead Project
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Sandstone
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Le Sueur Theater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
District 6 School in New Sweden
Jordan Brewery Complex
Green Lake Mounds
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Oxford Mill Ruin
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Franconia
The Little Marais Inn
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Red Wing Iron Works
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Ruins of Sawyer School
Old Brewery In Preston
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Enter Marlon Brando
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hollywood Town Hall
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Dotson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Wasioja
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome to Hanska
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Cobden
Visiting Golden Gate
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hanover Bridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Old School In Wolverton
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Florence Town Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
State Theater In Hutchinson
Meyer School In St Augusta
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
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 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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

