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...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Robbinsdale Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Apartments
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Townhomes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
District 6 School in New Sweden
The District 6 school in New Sweden Township stands in a field surrounded by tall stalks of corn in...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Geldner Sawmill stands on a narrow strip of land that separates Lake Jefferson and German Lake...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Endion Depot In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Sandstone
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Red Wing Iron Works
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Moving Old Hibbing
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Remembering Quadna Resort
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Wasioja
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Visiting Golden Gate
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Franconia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
District 48 School Near Delano
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Le Sueur Theater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Little Marais Inn
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Oxford Mill Ruin
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Duluth Homestead Project
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Milford Monument
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Enter Marlon Brando
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome to Hanska
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The New Ulm Company Service Station
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Green Lake Mounds
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Almelund Creamery
Little Falls Depot
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bend in the River Regional Park
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Old Brewery In Preston
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

