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
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Constructed in 1897 for $13,000, the First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was designed...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Eight Days in May Protests
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wilder Public Baths
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Townhomes
Robbinsdale Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
In 1872, Joseph Schmucker took over operation of Friton Brewery, which was the first brewery to...
Old Brewery In Preston
The Duluth Homestead Project
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Hanover Bridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Meyer School In St Augusta
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Little Marais Inn
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Florence Town Hall
Green Lake Mounds
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Old School In Wolverton
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Old Wadena
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Sandstone
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Franconia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Wasioja
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Ottawa
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hollywood Town Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Milford Monument
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Cobden
Visiting Golden Gate
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lost Highway 61
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Moving Old Hibbing
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bend in the River Regional Park
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac 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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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