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
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Names like Louis Comfort Tiffany and Gustav Stickley are well rooted in many American’s minds as...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Saint Paul Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Robbinsdale Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Greater Minnesota
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
St Rose of Lima church was built in 1878. The church and its cemetery sit on over an acre of land...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Old School In Wolverton
The End of the Line in Currie
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
District 48 School Near Delano
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lost Highway 61
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Red Wing Iron Works
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hollywood Town Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Florence Town Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Green Lake Mounds
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Sandstone
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Little Falls Depot
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Moving Old Hibbing
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Cobden
Jordan Brewery Complex
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
Enter Marlon Brando
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Franconia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Duluth Homestead Project
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome to Hanska
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bend in the River Regional Park
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Milford Monument
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Wasioja
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Old Brewery In Preston
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
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...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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