St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
Twin Cities Area
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium was the first medical hospital in Anoka, Minnesota. Dr. James F. Kline opened the...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wilder Public Baths
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Eight Days in May Protests
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Endion School In Duluth
The Endion School in Duluth, Minnesota, was built in 1890. The architect who designed the three...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
In 1929, the Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge was established in Lanesboro, Minnesota. Membership...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Enter Marlon Brando
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Almelund Creamery
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Sandstone
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Wasioja
Welcome to Hanska
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Le Sueur Theater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Green Lake Mounds
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Oxford Mill Ruin
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Milford Monument
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hollywood Town Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The End of the Line in Currie
The Old School In Wolverton
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Cobden
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Visiting Golden Gate
Jordan Brewery Complex
Meyer School In St Augusta
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Moderne New Ulm Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Moving Old Hibbing
Little Falls Depot
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lost Highway 61
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Remembering Quadna Resort
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
District 48 School Near Delano
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lundring Service Station in Canby
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

