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
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Located in Robbinsdale, the international-style Terrace Theatre opened on May 23, 1951. At the...
Wilder Public Baths
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Saint Paul Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
District #28 School in Ramsey
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Landmark Center In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Apartments
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Greater Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
When I arrived at the Quadna Resort, I felt like I’d stepped back in time. Although the lodge...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George Neuwirth operated a popular bowling alley and bar throughout the 1930s and 1940s in New Ulm...
Moving Old Hibbing
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Cobden
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Moderne New Ulm Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Ottawa
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lost Highway 61
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 48 School Near Delano
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
District 6 School in New Sweden
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Wasioja
The Church of the Holy Cross
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Almelund Creamery
The Little Marais Inn
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Milford Monument
Enter Marlon Brando
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Endion School In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Sandstone
Visiting Golden Gate
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome to Hanska
Hanover Bridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Old School In Wolverton
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Little Falls Depot
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
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...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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