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
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gates of Stonebridge
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wilder Public Baths
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
The End of the Line in Currie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Dotson
Visiting Golden Gate
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Le Sueur Theater
The Duluth Homestead Project
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Finding The Past In Swatara
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Enter Marlon Brando
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hollywood Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Florence Town Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hanover Bridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Wasioja
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Endion Depot In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Milford Monument
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Old School In Wolverton
The Little Marais Inn
Moving Old Hibbing
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
District 6 School in New Sweden
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Franconia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome to Hanska
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Moderne New Ulm Library
Endion School In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Little Falls Depot
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Green Lake Mounds
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
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