The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
Twin Cities Area
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Townhomes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Landmark Center In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gates of Stonebridge
Greater Minnesota
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Travelers come upon the Stewart Creek stone-arch bridge in a bend of an unpaved section of Skyline...
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 Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Little Marais Inn
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Green Lake Mounds
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome to Hanska
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Duluth Homestead Project
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Sandstone
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The End of the Line in Currie
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hanover Bridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Endion School In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bend in the River Regional Park
Little Falls Depot
Remembering Quadna Resort
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hollywood Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Enter Marlon Brando
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lost Highway 61
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Old Wadena
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Dotson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Old School In Wolverton
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Ruins of Sawyer School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Old Brewery In Preston
District 48 School Near Delano
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Visiting Golden Gate
Red Wing Iron Works
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Moving Old Hibbing
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Almelund Creamery
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Wasioja
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Milford Monument
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Florence Town Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

