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 Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Eight Days in May Protests
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Apartments
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gates of Stonebridge
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Saint Paul Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The West Bridge in Madelia, Minnesota, was built in 1908. It is the earliest remaining example of a...
Visiting Golden Gate
A post office was first established in Golden Gate, Minnesota, in 1868. The little town sprang up...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Wasioja
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Florence Town Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hanover Bridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Old Brewery In Preston
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Cobden
District 6 School in New Sweden
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taylor House In Le Sueur
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Meyer School In St Augusta
Little Falls Depot
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Ottawa
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Franconia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
District 48 School Near Delano
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lost Highway 61
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bend in the River Regional Park
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Dotson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The End of the Line in Currie
Jordan Brewery Complex
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Almelund Creamery
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Milford Monument
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Endion School In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Moderne New Ulm Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Little Marais Inn
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Finding The Past In Swatara
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Red Wing Iron Works
The Old School In Wolverton
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Old Wadena
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland 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 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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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