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
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
All of Theodore and Louise Hamm’s children stayed close to their family home and business. Most...
The Eight Days in May Protests
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Apartments
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Originally built as the second home of the First Swedish Baptist Church in 1910, the Temple Baptist...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Almelund Creamery
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Franconia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Le Sueur Theater
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Green Lake Mounds
Moving Old Hibbing
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The End of the Line in Currie
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Cobden
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Ottawa
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome to Hanska
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Old Brewery In Preston
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Sandstone
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
District 48 School Near Delano
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Little Falls Depot
Red Wing Iron Works
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hanover Bridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
State Theater In Hutchinson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Little Marais Inn
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Enter Marlon Brando
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Finding The Past In Swatara
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lost Highway 61
Florence Town Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Old School In Wolverton
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...

