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 Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Robbinsdale Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Cobden
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Old School In Wolverton
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Visiting Golden Gate
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Oxford Mill Ruin
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Old Wadena
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Meyer School In St Augusta
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Wasioja
Florence Town Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lost Highway 61
Moving Old Hibbing
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Duluth Homestead Project
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Milford Monument
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Endion Depot In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Sandstone
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Ottawa
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Little Marais Inn
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Enter Marlon Brando
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Franconia
District 6 School in New Sweden
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Green Lake Mounds
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...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
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...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown