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 Gates of Stonebridge
In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Apartments
Wilder Public Baths
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Beaver Bay is the oldest white settlement along the North Shore of Lake Superior. It was...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Almelund Creamery
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Meyer School In St Augusta
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hanover Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
The Little Marais Inn
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood Town Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Visiting Golden Gate
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bend in the River Regional Park
Finding The Past In Swatara
Endion School In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Wasioja
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
The Milford Monument
The Church of the Holy Cross
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Jordan Brewery Complex
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Moving Old Hibbing
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Old Brewery In Preston
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome to Hanska
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lost Highway 61
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Little Falls Depot
Historic Franconia
Red Wing Iron Works
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Endion Depot In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Munger Terrace In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
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
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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