The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Twin Cities Area
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Robbinsdale Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Harry A. Subilia was an Italian immigrant who opened the first distillery in New Ulm, Minnesota. He...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
I’m sure we’ve all made typos that made us cringe once we noticed them. But most of our...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Duluth Homestead Project
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Le Sueur Theater
Enter Marlon Brando
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Little Marais Inn
Finding The Past In Swatara
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hanover Bridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Green Lake Mounds
Visiting Golden Gate
The Old School In Wolverton
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Meyer School In St Augusta
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hollywood Town Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Franconia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Wasioja
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome to Hanska
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Milford Monument
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Almelund Creamery
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Jordan Brewery Complex
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
District 48 School Near Delano
Old Brewery In Preston
Endion School In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Florence Town Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring Sandstone
Lost Highway 61
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Cobden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

