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
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Martha G. Ripley Hospital for Women was a pioneering institution in the history of Minnesota...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Women’s City Club In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Robbinsdale Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
Welcome to Hanska
Hanska was supposed to be a quick stop on my way from Mankato to Sleepy Eye. I planned to get a few...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
The Milford Monument
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Endion School In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hanover Bridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Cobden
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hollywood Town Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Ottawa
Florence Town Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Green Lake Mounds
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Almelund Creamery
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Sandstone
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Ruins of Sawyer School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Red Wing Iron Works
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Little Falls Depot
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Randall Cooperative Creamery
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Le Sueur Theater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Enter Marlon Brando
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Wasioja
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Old School In Wolverton
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
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...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
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...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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