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
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Saint Paul Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Greater Minnesota
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Freemasons organized a lodge in Clearwater, Minnesota in 1858 that became known as Masonic...
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
District 48 School Near Delano
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Florence Town Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hollywood Town Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
The Le Sueur Theater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Almond White and the Motley Castle
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hanover Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Almelund Creamery
The Little Marais Inn
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
District 6 School in New Sweden
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Visiting Golden Gate
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The End of the Line in Currie
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Ottawa
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Duluth Homestead Project
Finding The Past In Swatara
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Sandstone
Meyer School In St Augusta
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Munger Terrace In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Green Lake Mounds
The Old School In Wolverton
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Milford Monument
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Endion School In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moving Old Hibbing
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Cobden
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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