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
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg and his wife Dora were the owners of a jewelry store in downtown Minneapolis in the...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Eight Days in May Protests
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Townhomes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wilder Public Baths
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
District 6 School in New Sweden
The District 6 school in New Sweden Township stands in a field surrounded by tall stalks of corn in...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
In 1929, the Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge was established in Lanesboro, Minnesota. Membership...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Milford Monument
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Franconia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moderne New Ulm Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Old Brewery In Preston
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Florence Town Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Red Wing Iron Works
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Cobden
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bend in the River Regional Park
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lost Highway 61
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Wasioja
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Le Sueur Theater
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Old School In Wolverton
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Almelund Creamery
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Enter Marlon Brando
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hanover Bridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Old Wadena
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Oxford Mill Ruin
Moving Old Hibbing
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome to Hanska
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Endion School In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Green Lake Mounds
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Little Falls Depot
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
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