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
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Apartments
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
District 48 School Near Delano
Visiting Golden Gate
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Franconia
Moderne New Ulm Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Florence Town Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Milford Monument
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Jordan Brewery Complex
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lost Highway 61
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hanover Bridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Old Wadena
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Remembering Quadna Resort
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Sandstone
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Little Marais Inn
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bend in the River Regional Park
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The End of the Line in Currie
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Green Lake Mounds
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Church of the Holy Cross
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Little Falls Depot
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Dotson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome to Hanska
Enter Marlon Brando
Oxford Mill Ruin
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

