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
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
It may have been luck that spared the Colonnade Hotel the same fate as so many other old downtown...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wilder Public Baths
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Saint Paul Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Robbinsdale Library
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lost Highway 61
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Green Lake Mounds
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
Little Falls Depot
Remembering Quadna Resort
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Visiting Golden Gate
Hollywood Town Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Sandstone
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Endion Depot In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Ottawa
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The End of the Line in Currie
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Florence Town Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Wasioja
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bend in the River Regional Park
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Red Wing Iron Works
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Jordan Brewery Complex
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Almelund Creamery
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Le Sueur Theater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
The Old School In Wolverton
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Dotson
Meyer School In St Augusta
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Milford Monument
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Finding The Past In Swatara
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome to Hanska
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdingerโs grist mill in the...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who donโt...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

