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
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Originally named the Palazzo, the Colonnade Hotel opened on St. Peter Street in Saint Paul in 1888...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Apartments
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
In 1909, just eight years after this school was built in Sandstone, lightning struck. Sadly, the...
Historic Wasioja
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
District 48 School Near Delano
District 6 School in New Sweden
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Dotson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Milford Monument
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Cobden
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Sandstone
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Green Lake Mounds
Hollywood Town Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Little Falls Depot
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Moving Old Hibbing
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
State Theater In Hutchinson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Old Brewery In Preston
Enter Marlon Brando
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Franconia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Old Wadena
The End of the Line in Currie
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Visiting Golden Gate
Finding The Past In Swatara
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Ruins of Sawyer School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Old School In Wolverton
Hanover Bridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Le Sueur Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Remembering Quadna Resort
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
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...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City 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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
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...

