One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
Twin Cities Area
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Landmark Center In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Eight Days in May Protests
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Greater Minnesota
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Harry A. Subilia was an Italian immigrant who opened the first distillery in New Ulm, Minnesota. He...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Most of us wouldn’t consider a 13,000 square foot mansion situated on a six-acre wooded lot with...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hanover Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Ottawa
District 48 School Near Delano
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Almelund Creamery
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The End of the Line in Currie
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Historic Wasioja
Moving Old Hibbing
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
State Theater In Hutchinson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Oxford Mill Ruin
Visiting Golden Gate
Florence Town Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Dotson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Sandstone
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Little Marais Inn
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Green Lake Mounds
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome to Hanska
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Remembering Quadna Resort
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Old Brewery In Preston
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Red Wing Iron Works
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Cobden
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Enter Marlon Brando
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City