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
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Constructed in 1869-70, the Metropolitan Hotel once stood at the corner of Washington and Third...
The Swinford Apartments
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Robbinsdale Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gates of Stonebridge
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Saint Paul Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Greater Minnesota
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Archibald mill is located on the banks of the Cannon River in Dundas. Brothers John S. and...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The District Number 50 school in Essig, Minnesota, opened in 1912. Children attend this one-room...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Florence Town Hall
Historic Wasioja
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Green Lake Mounds
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
The End of the Line in Currie
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Old Brewery In Preston
The Milford Monument
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lost Highway 61
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Duluth Homestead Project
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
State Theater In Hutchinson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 6 School in New Sweden
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Red Wing Iron Works
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Sandstone
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Endion School In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Dotson
District 48 School Near Delano
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Le Sueur Theater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Visiting Golden Gate
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Church of the Holy Cross
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Little Marais Inn
Hollywood Town Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
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?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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