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 Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Apartments
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Saint Paul Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rumors of copper riches hidden in the North Shore's streams and hillsides had excited the...
Florence Town Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Old Brewery In Preston
Hollywood Town Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Almelund Creamery
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hanover Bridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moderne New Ulm Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Enter Marlon Brando
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Sandstone
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Cobden
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Little Marais Inn
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Visiting Golden Gate
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Duluth Homestead Project
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Wasioja
Little Falls Depot
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Ottawa
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Old Wadena
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Red Wing Iron Works
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Ruins of Sawyer School
Green Lake Mounds
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Finding The Past In Swatara
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Jordan Brewery Complex
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Endion School In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome to Hanska
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Endion Depot In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Remembering Quadna Resort
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
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?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of 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