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 Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
On March 22, 1836, Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark married Lieutenant Horatio Phillips Van Cleve a few...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Robbinsdale Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Townhomes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Greater Minnesota
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Geldner Sawmill stands on a narrow strip of land that separates Lake Jefferson and German Lake...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Green Lake Mounds
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 48 School Near Delano
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Randall Cooperative Creamery
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Milford Monument
Hollywood Town Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Almelund Creamery
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Ruins of Sawyer School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Sandstone
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Visiting Golden Gate
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Oxford Mill Ruin
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Moving Old Hibbing
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome to Hanska
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Wasioja
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lost Highway 61
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
District 6 School in New Sweden
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Dotson
The End of the Line in Currie
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Little Marais Inn
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Little Falls Depot
The Le Sueur Theater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Florence Town Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Old Brewery In Preston
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Cobden
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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