Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Twin Cities Area
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Construction on the Hamm Building in downtown St Paul began in 1915 and was completed in 1920. The...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Wilder Public Baths
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gates of Stonebridge
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Townhomes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Greater Minnesota
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
Visiting Golden Gate
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Old School In Wolverton
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Almelund Creamery
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Florence Town Hall
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Little Falls Depot
District 6 School in New Sweden
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Oxford Mill Ruin
Moving Old Hibbing
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hollywood Town Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome to Hanska
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Franconia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The New Ulm Company Service Station
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
District 48 School Near Delano
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Sandstone
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Green Lake Mounds
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lost Highway 61
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Wasioja
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Dotson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Enter Marlon Brando
Old Brewery In Preston
The Milford Monument
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bend in the River Regional Park
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Red Wing Iron Works
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

