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...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Robbinsdale Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Townhomes
Wilder Public Baths
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Geldner Sawmill stands on a narrow strip of land that separates Lake Jefferson and German Lake...
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Meyer School In St Augusta
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Le Sueur Theater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Moving Old Hibbing
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Almelund Creamery
The Milford Monument
The Duluth Homestead Project
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Wasioja
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome to Hanska
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Franconia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Florence Town Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
State Theater In Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Enter Marlon Brando
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Ottawa
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Little Marais Inn
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The End of the Line in Currie
Green Lake Mounds
District 48 School Near Delano
Endion Depot In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Visiting Golden Gate
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion School In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Sandstone
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lost Highway 61
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Finding The Past In Swatara
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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