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
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Landmark Center In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Munger Terrace has been a landmark in Duluth’s Central Hillside neighborhood since the building was...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Little Marais Inn
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Milford Monument
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Sandstone
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Le Sueur Theater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
District 48 School Near Delano
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Florence Town Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome to Hanska
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Red Wing Iron Works
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Little Falls Depot
Jordan Brewery Complex
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Moderne New Ulm Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Old School In Wolverton
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Wasioja
The Duluth Homestead Project
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Green Lake Mounds
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Franconia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Old Brewery In Preston
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hanover Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Cobden
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Enter Marlon Brando
Lost Highway 61
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Ottawa
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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