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
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
The Saint Paul Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Townhomes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome to Hanska
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Old Brewery In Preston
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Milford Monument
Bend in the River Regional Park
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Cobden
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Old Wadena
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Sandstone
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hanover Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Duluth Homestead Project
Meyer School In St Augusta
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Florence Town Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Endion School In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Ottawa
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Green Lake Mounds
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Enter Marlon Brando
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Almelund Creamery
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Visiting Golden Gate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Le Sueur Theater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Wasioja
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...

