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
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wilder Public Baths
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
After one hundred and twenty years, the mystery of what happened to Clara Ober between the evening...
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
Welcome To Cobden
Moving Old Hibbing
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Green Lake Mounds
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moderne New Ulm Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The End of the Line in Currie
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Endion School In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lost Highway 61
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Old Brewery In Preston
Enter Marlon Brando
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome to Hanska
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Franconia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Endion Depot In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Red Wing Iron Works
The Old School In Wolverton
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hollywood Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering Quadna Resort
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Oxford Mill Ruin
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Little Falls Depot
Hanover Bridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Ottawa
Visiting Golden Gate
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Church of the Holy Cross
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Florence Town Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Duluth Homestead Project
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Jordan Brewery Complex
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City 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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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