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 Weatherball in Minneapolis
♫ When the Weatherball is glowing red, warmer weather’s just ahead. When the Weatherball is...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wilder Public Baths
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Landmark Center In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Apartments
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Greater Minnesota
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Not much has changed at this house in Duluth. It looks pretty much the same as it did when it was...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Originally built as the second home of the First Swedish Baptist Church in 1910, the Temple Baptist...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Sandstone
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Wasioja
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Visiting Golden Gate
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The End of the Line in Currie
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Old Brewery In Preston
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Red Wing Iron Works
Meyer School In St Augusta
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Endion Depot In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Ruins of Sawyer School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Enter Marlon Brando
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
District 48 School Near Delano
Green Lake Mounds
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Milford Monument
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Franconia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Moving Old Hibbing
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Endion School In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Le Sueur Theater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Dotson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Little Falls Depot
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome To Old Wadena
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hanover Bridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Duluth Homestead Project
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Little Marais Inn
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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