Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Twin Cities Area
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Apartments
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Landmark Center In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Dotson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Almelund Creamery
The Old School In Wolverton
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Milford Monument
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hollywood Town Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Cobden
Hanover Bridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Red Wing Iron Works
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Ottawa
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Jordan Brewery Complex
Little Falls Depot
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Franconia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Duluth Homestead Project
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
District 48 School Near Delano
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Wasioja
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Sandstone
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
The Little Marais Inn
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Church of the Holy Cross
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bend in the River Regional Park
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lost Highway 61
Welcome to Hanska
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The End of the Line in Currie
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Enter Marlon Brando
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...

