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...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George H. Christian was a manager at the Washburn-Crosby Company in Minneapolis who worked out a...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Apartments
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Before the Interstate Bridge was built between Duluth and Superior in the late-1890s, the only way...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome to Hanska
Florence Town Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Almelund Creamery
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Endion School In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Le Sueur Theater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Almond White and the Motley Castle
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
The Duluth Homestead Project
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Cobden
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Dotson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Remembering Quadna Resort
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Green Lake Mounds
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
The Old School In Wolverton
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Ottawa
The Milford Monument
Lost Highway 61
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Little Falls Depot
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lincoln Park In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Moving Old Hibbing
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hanover Bridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Old Brewery In Preston
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Franconia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Meyer School In St Augusta
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

