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
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Apartments
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wilder Public Baths
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Robbinsdale Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Greater Minnesota
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
This old stone chapel was built at the Sunrise Funeral Home and Cemetery in 1949. Located in...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Englanders who settled in the St Croix Valley were drawn there because of the thick, wild...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lost Highway 61
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Moving Old Hibbing
Meyer School In St Augusta
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Red Wing Iron Works
Endion Depot In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Little Marais Inn
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Ottawa
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Endion School In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Dotson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Jordan Brewery Complex
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Oxford Mill Ruin
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Green Lake Mounds
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Cobden
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Sandstone
The Milford Monument
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Wasioja
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome to Hanska
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bend in the River Regional Park
Enter Marlon Brando
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Remembering Quadna Resort
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Florence Town Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Moderne New Ulm Library
Little Falls Depot
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

