It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
Twin Cities Area
Wilder Public Baths
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium was the first medical hospital in Anoka, Minnesota. Dr. James F. Kline opened the...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Eight Days in May Protests
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Apartments
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Robbinsdale Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Park Terrace was an opulent building of Victorian townhouses located on a steep hill just off of...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Franconia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Jordan Brewery Complex
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Church of the Holy Cross
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Dotson
District 48 School Near Delano
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Old School In Wolverton
Moderne New Ulm Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Endion Depot In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Enter Marlon Brando
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Florence Town Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Milford Monument
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Sandstone
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hollywood Town Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Green Lake Mounds
The Little Marais Inn
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Cobden
Little Falls Depot
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The End of the Line in Currie
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Ottawa
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Almelund Creamery
Old Brewery In Preston
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Wasioja
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
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...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

