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
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Horatio Alden Smith made the bulk of his fortune as the co-owner of the Smith and Wyman Sash and...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Apartments
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Wilder Public Baths
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
One of the earliest victims of the big blow on Lake Superior in November of 1905 was the steamer...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Avenue, located on the east side of St. Cloud, became part of the Jefferson Highway system...
Lost Highway 61
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Franconia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
State Theater In Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Meyer School In St Augusta
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Little Marais Inn
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Red Wing Iron Works
Finding The Past In Swatara
Florence Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Green Lake Mounds
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood Town Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Wasioja
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Visiting Golden Gate
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hanover Bridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Dotson
Little Falls Depot
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Cobden
District 6 School in New Sweden
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Old School In Wolverton
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The End of the Line in Currie
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Almelund Creamery
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Milford Monument
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Sandstone
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
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...
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
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
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 Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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