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 Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Lowry Hotel opened in 1927 and was 12 floors of pure glamour. An addition was made in 1930 to...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wilder Public Baths
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Saint Paul Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Robbinsdale Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
In 1909, just eight years after this school was built in Sandstone, lightning struck. Sadly, the...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bend in the River Regional Park
The End of the Line in Currie
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
District 6 School in New Sweden
District 48 School Near Delano
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Almelund Creamery
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
State Theater In Hutchinson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Meyer School In St Augusta
Jordan Brewery Complex
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Cobden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Florence Town Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Moderne New Ulm Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Sandstone
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Wasioja
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Franconia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome to Hanska
Remembering Quadna Resort
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Milford Monument
Red Wing Iron Works
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Le Sueur Theater
Lost Highway 61
Visiting Golden Gate
Oxford Mill Ruin
Moving Old Hibbing
Endion School In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Little Falls Depot
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Old School In Wolverton
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Little Marais Inn
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hanover Bridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
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