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
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
Wilder Public Baths
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Robbinsdale Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Greater Minnesota
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The charming town of Winona, Minnesota, once played host to an extraordinary tale in the world of...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Rush City Creamery Cooperative was organized in 1907 by a group of local dairy farmers. After...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Dotson
Endion School In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Moderne New Ulm Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Meyer School In St Augusta
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Florence Town Hall
The Little Marais Inn
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Cobden
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Jordan Brewery Complex
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Enter Marlon Brando
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Little Falls Depot
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
District 48 School Near Delano
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Franconia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hollywood Town Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Wasioja
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hanover Bridge
The End of the Line in Currie
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Milford Monument
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Ottawa
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Visiting Golden Gate
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Le Sueur Theater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Old Wadena
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome to Hanska
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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