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 Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Lowry Hotel opened in 1927 and was 12 floors of pure glamour. An addition was made in 1930 to...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Townhomes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wilder Public Baths
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Landmark Center In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Robbinsdale Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Greater Minnesota
Visiting Golden Gate
A post office was first established in Golden Gate, Minnesota, in 1868. The little town sprang up...
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...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
District 48 School Near Delano
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Endion School In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Milford Monument
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Old Wadena
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hanover Bridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Old School In Wolverton
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Moving Old Hibbing
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Red Wing Iron Works
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lost Highway 61
District 6 School in New Sweden
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Wasioja
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Little Falls Depot
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Florence Town Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Almelund Creamery
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Franconia
The Little Marais Inn
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Enter Marlon Brando
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Sandstone
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Dotson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome to Hanska
The New Ulm Company Service Station
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
State Theater In Hutchinson
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Le Sueur Theater
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Moderne New Ulm Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City 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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
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
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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