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 End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
In 1899, the Twin City Rapid Transit Company extended its reach of their streetcars to the...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Robbinsdale Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Greater Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Florence Town Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Moving Old Hibbing
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Wasioja
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Red Wing Iron Works
State Theater In Hutchinson
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Sandstone
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Ottawa
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hanover Bridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Franconia
The Almelund Creamery
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Green Lake Mounds
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Old School In Wolverton
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Le Sueur Theater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hollywood Town Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Milford Monument
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Remembering Quadna Resort
Enter Marlon Brando
District 48 School Near Delano
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Jordan Brewery Complex
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome to Hanska
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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