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 Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
District #28 School in Ramsey
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gates of Stonebridge
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Robbinsdale Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Bally Blacksmith Shop opened in 1911 when Sam Bally left his job at a sawmill to open his own...
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...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bend in the River Regional Park
Little Falls Depot
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome to Hanska
Ruins of Sawyer School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Cobden
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Little Marais Inn
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
State Theater In Hutchinson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hanover Bridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Old School In Wolverton
The Almelund Creamery
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Ottawa
Endion School In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
District 6 School in New Sweden
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Sandstone
Florence Town Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Brewery In Preston
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Red Wing Iron Works
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Franconia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Enter Marlon Brando
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Wasioja
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Milford Monument
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Moderne New Ulm Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

