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
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Horatio Alden Smith made the bulk of his fortune as the co-owner of the Smith and Wyman Sash and...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Landmark Center In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Eight Days in May Protests
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Townhomes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Greater Minnesota
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lincoln Park is 37 acres of space along Miller Creek in Duluth’s west end. Today, the park includes...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Red Wing Iron Works
The Old School In Wolverton
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Little Marais Inn
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Le Sueur Theater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Cobden
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Oxford Mill Ruin
Meyer School In St Augusta
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The End of the Line in Currie
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bend in the River Regional Park
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Church of the Holy Cross
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Duluth Homestead Project
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hanover Bridge
Endion School In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Milford Monument
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Franconia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Wasioja
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Little Falls Depot
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Moving Old Hibbing
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Ottawa
District 48 School Near Delano
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hollywood Town Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Florence Town Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
State Theater In Hutchinson
Remembering Quadna Resort
Visiting Golden Gate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lost Highway 61
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
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...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Welcome to Heaton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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