As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
Twin Cities Area
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wilder Public Baths
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Townhomes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Greater Minnesota
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George Neuwirth operated a popular bowling alley and bar throughout the 1930s and 1940s in New Ulm...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Green Lake Mounds
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Franconia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hollywood Town Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hanover Bridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Old Wadena
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Visiting Golden Gate
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome to Hanska
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Meyer School In St Augusta
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lost Highway 61
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Wasioja
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Endion Depot In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Little Falls Depot
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
District 48 School Near Delano
Ruins of Sawyer School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Cobden
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Milford Monument
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Enter Marlon Brando
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Ottawa
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Endion School In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Florence Town Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bend in the River Regional Park
Red Wing Iron Works
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Moving Old Hibbing
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

