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
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Townhomes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wilder Public Baths
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
District #28 School in Ramsey
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Greater Minnesota
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Church of the Holy Cross in Dundas is a Gothic-style church built in 1868. John S. Archibald of...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Built in 1898, the West Riverside School was originally known as District #38 School. Isanti County...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Visiting Golden Gate
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Franconia
Little Falls Depot
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Sandstone
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Le Sueur Theater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Endion Depot In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Dotson
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Brewery In Preston
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion School In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Almelund Creamery
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Moving Old Hibbing
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
District 48 School Near Delano
Green Lake Mounds
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Cobden
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Florence Town Hall
Historic Wasioja
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Little Marais Inn
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hanover Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lost Highway 61
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Ottawa
The Milford Monument
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Duluth Homestead Project
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hollywood Town Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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