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 Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Robbinsdale Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Greater Minnesota
Hollywood Town Hall
The Carver County District Number 76 School was built in 1906 and opened for classes in the fall of...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Enter Marlon Brando
Little Falls Depot
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Milford Monument
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Church of the Holy Cross
State Theater In Hutchinson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Florence Town Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Dotson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Le Sueur Theater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hanover Bridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Endion School In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Red Wing Iron Works
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Finding The Past In Swatara
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Franconia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Sandstone
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Old Wadena
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Old School In Wolverton
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Ottawa
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
District 48 School Near Delano
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome to Hanska
Lost Highway 61
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Almelund Creamery
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Jordan Brewery Complex
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Visiting Golden Gate
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Duluth Homestead Project
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
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...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

