The St Paul Hotel has been the backbone of charm and elegance in downtown St Paul since it opened...
Twin Cities Area
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
On March 22, 1836, Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark married Lieutenant Horatio Phillips Van Cleve a few...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gates of Stonebridge
Robbinsdale Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Apartments
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Greater Minnesota
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Church of the Holy Cross in Dundas is a Gothic-style church built in 1868. John S. Archibald of...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
In 1909, just eight years after this school was built in Sandstone, lightning struck. Sadly, the...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hanover Bridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Wasioja
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Old Wadena
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Enter Marlon Brando
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Old School In Wolverton
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Sandstone
Lost Highway 61
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Almelund Creamery
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome to Hanska
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Oxford Mill Ruin
Endion Depot In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Little Falls Depot
Meyer School In St Augusta
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Franconia
The End of the Line in Currie
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Dotson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Florence Town Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Moving Old Hibbing
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Cobden
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Ruins of Sawyer School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Red Wing Iron Works
District 48 School Near Delano
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
District 6 School in New Sweden
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...

