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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The house at 193 N Mackubin in Saint Paul, Minnesota, was built in 1882. This Second Empire-style...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Robbinsdale Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Townhomes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wilder Public Baths
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Greater Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Before the Interstate Bridge was built between Duluth and Superior in the late-1890s, the only way...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Little Marais Inn
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Wasioja
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Endion Depot In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Cobden
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Milford Monument
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Dotson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Old Wadena
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Sandstone
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Old School In Wolverton
Oxford Mill Ruin
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hollywood Town Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome to Hanska
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Red Wing Iron Works
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Jordan Brewery Complex
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Moving Old Hibbing
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Florence Town Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Little Falls Depot
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lost Highway 61
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Endion School In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Green Lake Mounds
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Old Brewery In Preston
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Visiting Golden Gate
The End of the Line in Currie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Almelund Creamery
District 6 School in New Sweden
Meyer School In St Augusta
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
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...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown