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
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Apartments
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wilder Public Baths
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Greater Minnesota
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Donald and Carrie Balfour house in Rochester, Minnesota, is a lovely example of how an Arts and...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hanover Bridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
District 6 School in New Sweden
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
State Theater In Hutchinson
The End of the Line in Currie
Bend in the River Regional Park
Moving Old Hibbing
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Little Marais Inn
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
District 48 School Near Delano
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Milford Monument
Florence Town Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Old School In Wolverton
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Wasioja
The Church of the Holy Cross
Old Brewery In Preston
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood Town Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Cobden
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Visiting Golden Gate
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Red Wing Iron Works
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Enter Marlon Brando
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lost Highway 61
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
The Le Sueur Theater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Ottawa
The Almelund Creamery
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Ruins of Sawyer School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
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...
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...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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