Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Twin Cities Area
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Townhomes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Eight Days in May Protests
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Landmark Center In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Minnesota Home School for Girls was established by the state legislature in 1907 as a...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Built in 1926, the New Ulm Company Service Station is the best remaining example in a series of...
Welcome to Hanska
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Sandstone
Little Falls Depot
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Florence Town Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 48 School Near Delano
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Ottawa
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Meyer School In St Augusta
Finding The Past In Swatara
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lost Highway 61
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Cobden
The Almelund Creamery
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Moving Old Hibbing
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Old School In Wolverton
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Duluth Homestead Project
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
District 6 School in New Sweden
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Le Sueur Theater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The End of the Line in Currie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hollywood Town Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hanover Bridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Little Marais Inn
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Green Lake Mounds
Jordan Brewery Complex
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Wasioja
Bend in the River Regional Park
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Visiting Golden Gate
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Franconia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Old Wadena
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
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...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

