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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Saint Paul Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wilder Public Baths
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Townhomes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Apartments
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
Exploring Ottawa
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Old School In Wolverton
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Little Falls Depot
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Enter Marlon Brando
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Dotson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hanover Bridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Meyer School In St Augusta
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Milford Monument
Old Brewery In Preston
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Duluth Homestead Project
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The End of the Line in Currie
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Sandstone
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
District 48 School Near Delano
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Jordan Brewery Complex
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Red Wing Iron Works
Almond White and the Motley Castle
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Moderne New Ulm Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Oxford Mill Ruin
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Old Wadena
Endion School In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Hollywood Town Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Le Sueur Theater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lost Highway 61
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Florence Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Church of the Holy Cross
Finding The Past In Swatara
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Cobden
The Almelund Creamery
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Wasioja
Moving Old Hibbing
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
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 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses 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