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
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Saint Paul Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Townhomes
Wilder Public Baths
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Greater Minnesota
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
Welcome to Hanska
Hanska was supposed to be a quick stop on my way from Mankato to Sleepy Eye. I planned to get a few...
Endion School In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bend in the River Regional Park
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Wasioja
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Le Sueur Theater
Little Falls Depot
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Moving Old Hibbing
Hanover Bridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Enter Marlon Brando
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hollywood Town Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Old School In Wolverton
Wandering Around The Toimi School
State Theater In Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Jordan Brewery Complex
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Moderne New Ulm Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
District 48 School Near Delano
The Church of the Holy Cross
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Sandstone
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Almelund Creamery
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Milford Monument
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Old Wadena
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Visiting Golden Gate
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Duluth Homestead Project
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lost Highway 61
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Endion Depot In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering Quadna Resort
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
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?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

