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
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg and his wife Dora were the owners of a jewelry store in downtown Minneapolis in the...
Robbinsdale Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wilder Public Baths
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Landmark Center In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
District #28 School in Ramsey
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Greater Minnesota
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
In 1909, just eight years after this school was built in Sandstone, lightning struck. Sadly, the...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Daniel Piper came to Minnesota from New Hampshire with his wife and daughter in early 1877...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Franconia
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
State Theater In Hutchinson
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Church of the Holy Cross
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Milford Monument
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Dotson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hollywood Town Hall
Florence Town Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Duluth Homestead Project
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moving Old Hibbing
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Cobden
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Le Sueur Theater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Almelund Creamery
Little Falls Depot
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Wasioja
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
The Old School In Wolverton
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome to Hanska
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bend in the River Regional Park
District 6 School in New Sweden
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
District 48 School Near Delano
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Old Wadena
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Finding The Past In Swatara
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

