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...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
All of Theodore and Louise Hamm’s children stayed close to their family home and business. Most...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Eight Days in May Protests
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Green Lake Mounds
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Oxford Mill Ruin
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Old Brewery In Preston
Red Wing Iron Works
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to Hanska
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Little Marais Inn
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering Quadna Resort
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Historic Wasioja
The Almelund Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Ruins of Sawyer School
Finding The Past In Swatara
District 48 School Near Delano
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Sandstone
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Visiting Golden Gate
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Enter Marlon Brando
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Dotson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Ottawa
The Milford Monument
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hollywood Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Little Falls Depot
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Old School In Wolverton
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bend in the River Regional Park
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Meyer School In St Augusta
Endion School In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
State Theater In Hutchinson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

