The St Paul Hotel has been the backbone of charm and elegance in downtown St Paul since it opened...
Twin Cities Area
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance Building In...
The Germania Life Insurance Building was built in 1889 at Fourth Street and Minnesota in downtown...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Landmark Center In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
District #28 School in Ramsey
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Robbinsdale Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Greater Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Cobden
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Milford Monument
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Franconia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Moderne New Ulm Library
Red Wing Iron Works
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Ottawa
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Meyer School In St Augusta
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
District 6 School in New Sweden
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Enter Marlon Brando
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Endion School In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome to Hanska
Hanover Bridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Oxford Mill Ruin
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Wasioja
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Lost Highway 61
The Little Marais Inn
The New Ulm Company Service Station
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Old School In Wolverton
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Le Sueur Theater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
District 48 School Near Delano
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Almelund Creamery
Endion Depot In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
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...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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