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
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Minneapolis has many beautiful homes, but the Gale mansion is easily one of my top three. I love...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Eight Days in May Protests
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gates of Stonebridge
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A library was first established in Two Harbors, Minnesota in 1897. A group of citizens banded...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
After a devastating forest fire obliterated the villages of Finlayson, Hinckley, Miller, Mission...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Enter Marlon Brando
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
State Theater In Hutchinson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Wasioja
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Sandstone
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Cobden
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Milford Monument
District 48 School Near Delano
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Little Marais Inn
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The End of the Line in Currie
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Green Lake Mounds
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Meyer School In St Augusta
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Church of the Holy Cross
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hanover Bridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The New Ulm Company Service Station
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Little Falls Depot
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Dotson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Duluth Homestead Project
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lost Highway 61
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Old School In Wolverton
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Oxford Mill Ruin
Endion School In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Florence Town Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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?
Roadtrips
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...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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