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
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Eight Days in May Protests
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Townhomes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Robbinsdale Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Greater Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Daniel Piper came to Minnesota from New Hampshire with his wife and daughter in early 1877...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hollywood Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Enter Marlon Brando
Endion School In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Cobden
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Almelund Creamery
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Little Falls Depot
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Wasioja
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Remembering Quadna Resort
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Old School In Wolverton
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bend in the River Regional Park
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome to Hanska
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Old Brewery In Preston
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hanover Bridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Sandstone
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Oxford Mill Ruin
Florence Town Hall
The Milford Monument
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Dotson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Little Marais Inn
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Ottawa
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
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...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
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