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
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of Food
Betty Crocker was born in a boardroom of The Washburn-Crosby Company of Minneapolis in 1921. A...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wilder Public Baths
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Greater Minnesota
Visiting Golden Gate
A post office was first established in Golden Gate, Minnesota, in 1868. The little town sprang up...
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Red Wing Iron Works
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Little Falls Depot
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Little Marais Inn
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Moderne New Ulm Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Wasioja
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
State Theater In Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Old School In Wolverton
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Endion Depot In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lost Highway 61
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Enter Marlon Brando
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Meyer School In St Augusta
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hanover Bridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Cobden
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Oxford Mill Ruin
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Almelund Creamery
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Ottawa
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
District 48 School Near Delano
Ruins of Sawyer School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Milford Monument
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Remembering Quadna Resort
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jordan Brewery Complex
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
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...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
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 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
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...
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