One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. Itโs dwarfed by the...
Twin Cities Area
Women’s City Club In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The first branch library in the Minneapolis Public Library system was built in 1893-1894 and is one...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
District #28 School in Ramsey
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Townhomes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Apartments
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Taylor House In Le Sueur
There are quite a few examples of the gorgeous Eastlake-style architecture in Minnesota, but this...
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Moderne New Ulm Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Visiting Golden Gate
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Endion School In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
State Theater In Hutchinson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Ottawa
The Milford Monument
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Wasioja
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Cobden
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Green Lake Mounds
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Almelund Creamery
Lost Highway 61
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Franconia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hollywood Town Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome to Hanska
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Endion Depot In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Old School In Wolverton
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hanover Bridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Dotson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jordan Brewery Complex
Florence Town Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Little Marais Inn
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
District 48 School Near Delano
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Little Falls Depot
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Meyer School In St Augusta
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
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...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy OโBrien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

