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
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Landmark Center In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Townhomes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Apartments
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Greater Minnesota
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
There are quite a few examples of the gorgeous Eastlake-style architecture in Minnesota, but this...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Endion Depot In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Le Sueur Theater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Meyer School In St Augusta
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hollywood Town Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Hanover Bridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Old Wadena
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Florence Town Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Wasioja
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Ruins of Sawyer School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
State Theater In Hutchinson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lost Highway 61
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Franconia
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Sandstone
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Enter Marlon Brando
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Little Falls Depot
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Little Marais Inn
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Ottawa
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Visiting Golden Gate
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Park In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
The Old School In Wolverton
The Milford Monument
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Finding The Past In Swatara
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Dotson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Moving Old Hibbing
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
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...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill 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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

