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
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Townhomes
Landmark Center In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Apartments
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Robbinsdale Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Saint Paul Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gates of Stonebridge
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
In 1872, Joseph Schmucker took over operation of Friton Brewery, which was the first brewery to...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Almelund Creamery
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The End of the Line in Currie
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Moving Old Hibbing
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bend in the River Regional Park
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Florence Town Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Milford Monument
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Le Sueur Theater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Old School In Wolverton
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Franconia
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering Quadna Resort
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood Town Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Munger Terrace In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome to Hanska
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Dotson
The Church of the Holy Cross
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Little Falls Depot
Green Lake Mounds
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Daniel Piper House in Medford
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Sandstone
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Endion School In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Old Wadena
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Cobden
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Wasioja
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Little Marais Inn
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Meyer School In St Augusta
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

