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
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wilder Public Baths
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The End of the Line in Currie
Almond White and the Motley Castle
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Old School In Wolverton
The Milford Monument
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lost Highway 61
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Duluth Homestead Project
Enter Marlon Brando
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Sandstone
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Wasioja
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hanover Bridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Little Marais Inn
Endion School In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Ruins of Sawyer School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hollywood Town Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Visiting Golden Gate
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome to Hanska
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Dotson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Florence Town Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Le Sueur Theater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Old Wadena
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
District 48 School Near Delano
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Old Brewery In Preston
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Ottawa
Oxford Mill Ruin
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Moving Old Hibbing
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

