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...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Apartments
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Greater Minnesota
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Park Terrace was an opulent building of Victorian townhouses located on a steep hill just off of...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
Green Lake Mounds
The Little Marais Inn
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Wasioja
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Dotson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Enter Marlon Brando
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Ottawa
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome to Hanska
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Le Sueur Theater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Old Brewery In Preston
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Milford Monument
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Sandstone
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
District 48 School Near Delano
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Bend in the River Regional Park
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Meyer School In St Augusta
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Endion School In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Endion Depot In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Florence Town Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
Moderne New Ulm Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lost Highway 61
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Cobden
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hanover Bridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
District 6 School in New Sweden
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hollywood Town Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Old School In Wolverton
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Franconia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
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...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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