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
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Horatio Alden Smith made the bulk of his fortune as the co-owner of the Smith and Wyman Sash and...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Apartments
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wilder Public Baths
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two weeks after the James–Younger Gang raided Northfield the gang appeared at the farm of Ole...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Little Marais Inn
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome to Hanska
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Milford Monument
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Franconia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Wasioja
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
District 48 School Near Delano
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Cobden
Red Wing Iron Works
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Florence Town Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
Endion School In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Sandstone
Lost Highway 61
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Dotson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Jordan Brewery Complex
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Visiting Golden Gate
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bend in the River Regional Park
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
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...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
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 Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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