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
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Today, The Blaisdell is a wedding and event venue with cozy places to gather with your nearest and...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Robbinsdale Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gates of Stonebridge
Landmark Center In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Apartments
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
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...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
After a devastating forest fire obliterated the villages of Finlayson, Hinckley, Miller, Mission...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bend in the River Regional Park
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Le Sueur Theater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Endion Depot In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Milford Monument
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Meyer School In St Augusta
Enter Marlon Brando
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hanover Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Green Lake Mounds
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Dotson
Red Wing Iron Works
District 48 School Near Delano
The Old School In Wolverton
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The End of the Line in Currie
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome to Hanska
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Oxford Mill Ruin
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Almelund Creamery
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Moderne New Ulm Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Visiting Golden Gate
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hollywood Town Hall
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Wasioja
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Franconia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Jordan Brewery Complex
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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