Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Twin Cities Area
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Saint Paul Hotel
The St Paul Hotel has been the backbone of charm and elegance in downtown St Paul since it opened...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wilder Public Baths
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Apartments
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Bally Blacksmith Shop opened in 1911 when Sam Bally left his job at a sawmill to open his own...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Englanders who settled in the St Croix Valley were drawn there because of the thick, wild...
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Cobden
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Franconia
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Old Wadena
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome to Hanska
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lost Highway 61
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hollywood Town Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Meyer School In St Augusta
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Dotson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Milford Monument
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Remembering Quadna Resort
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Oxford Mill Ruin
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Ottawa
The Le Sueur Theater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Florence Town Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Old School In Wolverton
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Almelund Creamery
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The End of the Line in Currie
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Finding The Past In Swatara
Jordan Brewery Complex
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Endion Depot In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Sandstone
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Green Lake Mounds
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
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 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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

