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
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Apartments
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Townhomes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wilder Public Baths
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Greater Minnesota
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swatara, Minnesota, started out as a logging town when several logging companies moved into the...
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
Red Wing Iron Works
Enter Marlon Brando
Endion Depot In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Little Marais Inn
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Franconia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
District 6 School in New Sweden
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Cobden
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Florence Town Hall
Historic Wasioja
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Moving Old Hibbing
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Sandstone
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Endion School In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Le Sueur Theater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Milford Monument
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Church of the Holy Cross
State Theater In Hutchinson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Jordan Brewery Complex
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Little Falls Depot
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome to Hanska
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Visiting Golden Gate
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hanover Bridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Oxford Mill Ruin
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lost Highway 61
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
District 48 School Near Delano
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Green Lake Mounds
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Remembering Quadna Resort
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

