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
Robbinsdale Library
The Robbinsdale Library opened its doors for the first time on January 4, 1926, thanks to the...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Apartments
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Old Wadena
The townsite now known as Old Wadena was located on the Crow Wing River between the mouths of the...
Red Wing Iron Works
Red Wing Iron Works was founded in 1866 by brothers Benjamin and Daniel Densmore. They found a...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Green Lake Mounds
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Endion Depot In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Little Marais Inn
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Dotson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Oxford Mill Ruin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hanover Bridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome to Hanska
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Sandstone
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Meyer School In St Augusta
Jordan Brewery Complex
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Florence Town Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Little Falls Depot
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hollywood Town Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Church of the Holy Cross
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Old Brewery In Preston
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Franconia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Ottawa
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Moving Old Hibbing
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Lost Highway 61
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Cobden
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

