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
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium was the first medical hospital in Anoka, Minnesota. Dr. James F. Kline opened the...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Townhomes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Apartments
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wilder Public Baths
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Travelers come upon the Stewart Creek stone-arch bridge in a bend of an unpaved section of Skyline...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Built in 1926, the New Ulm Company Service Station is the best remaining example in a series of...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Sandstone
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome to Hanska
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hanover Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
District 48 School Near Delano
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Moving Old Hibbing
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Meyer School In St Augusta
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Wasioja
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Ottawa
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Green Lake Mounds
Old Brewery In Preston
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bend in the River Regional Park
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lost Highway 61
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Dotson
Jordan Brewery Complex
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Cobden
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Moderne New Ulm Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Incline Railway
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Almelund Creamery
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Little Falls Depot
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Munger Terrace In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Remembering Quadna Resort
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Franconia
Red Wing Iron Works
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Milford Monument
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Old School In Wolverton
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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