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 Gates of Stonebridge
In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Wilder Public Baths
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Apartments
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
District #28 School in Ramsey
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...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State Hospital
In 1873, the State of Minnesota was looking for a way to house an increasingly problematic group of...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Old Wadena
Visiting Golden Gate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Florence Town Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Enter Marlon Brando
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Remembering Quadna Resort
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Almond White and the Motley Castle
State Theater In Hutchinson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Wasioja
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Le Sueur Theater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Almelund Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Endion School In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Old School In Wolverton
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Red Wing Iron Works
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
District 48 School Near Delano
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Church of the Holy Cross
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bend in the River Regional Park
Green Lake Mounds
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome to Hanska
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Milford Monument
Old Brewery In Preston
The Little Marais Inn
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Endion Depot In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Little Falls Depot
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lost Highway 61
Randall Cooperative Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The End of the Line in Currie
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Moderne New Ulm Library
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

