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 Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Lowry Hotel opened in 1927 and was 12 floors of pure glamour. An addition was made in 1930 to...
The Swinford Townhomes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Eight Days in May Protests
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wilder Public Baths
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Ruins of Sawyer School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Little Falls Depot
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hollywood Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
The Old School In Wolverton
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The End of the Line in Currie
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Old Brewery In Preston
Munger Terrace In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Jordan Brewery Complex
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Sandstone
Endion School In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hanover Bridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Ottawa
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
State Theater In Hutchinson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Old Wadena
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Cobden
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Dotson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Moving Old Hibbing
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Green Lake Mounds
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Red Wing Iron Works
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Church of the Holy Cross
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Wasioja
Bend in the River Regional Park
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Visiting Golden Gate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Le Sueur Theater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Milford Monument
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...

