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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Robbinsdale Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Eight Days in May Protests
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Daniel Piper came to Minnesota from New Hampshire with his wife and daughter in early 1877...
Remembering Quadna Resort
When I arrived at the Quadna Resort, I felt like I’d stepped back in time. Although the lodge...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Visiting Golden Gate
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Endion School In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hanover Bridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Milford Monument
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
State Theater In Hutchinson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Green Lake Mounds
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Little Falls Depot
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Enter Marlon Brando
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The End of the Line in Currie
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Dotson
The Le Sueur Theater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lost Highway 61
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Endion Depot In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Almelund Creamery
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Moving Old Hibbing
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Wasioja
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hollywood Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Moderne New Ulm Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Finding The Past In Swatara
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
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...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...

