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
Robbinsdale Library
The Robbinsdale Library opened its doors for the first time on January 4, 1926, thanks to the...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Wilder Public Baths
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Eight Days in May Protests
Greater Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Welcome To Old Wadena
The townsite now known as Old Wadena was located on the Crow Wing River between the mouths of the...
Old Brewery In Preston
Visiting Golden Gate
Moderne New Ulm Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Franconia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Ottawa
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Jordan Brewery Complex
Little Falls Depot
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
District 48 School Near Delano
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hollywood Town Hall
Hanover Bridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Wasioja
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Enter Marlon Brando
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Endion Depot In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lost Highway 61
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Duluth Homestead Project
Red Wing Iron Works
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion School In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Old School In Wolverton
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Cobden
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Sandstone
The End of the Line in Currie
Florence Town Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Dotson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
The Milford Monument
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Almelund Creamery
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...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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