The Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis was one of the rare mills in the city that had four finished...
Twin Cities Area
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
District #28 School in Ramsey
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Saint Paul Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Apartments
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
Welcome To Cobden
Cobden, Minnesota, was incorporated in 1905. The little railroad town included a bank, creamery...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Little Marais Inn
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Franconia
Hanover Bridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lost Highway 61
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Almelund Creamery
Meyer School In St Augusta
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Ottawa
Ruins of Sawyer School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Oxford Mill Ruin
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
District 48 School Near Delano
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Endion School In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome to Hanska
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Green Lake Mounds
Little Falls Depot
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Dotson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hollywood Town Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bend in the River Regional Park
Remembering Quadna Resort
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Endion Depot In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Brewery In Preston
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Red Wing Iron Works
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Sandstone
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Wasioja
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland 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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

