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
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis was one of the rare mills in the city that had four finished...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Robbinsdale Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bend in the River Regional Park is located on the former property of the Graves family. The...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Old Wadena
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome to Hanska
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Milford Monument
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Moving Old Hibbing
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Duluth Homestead Project
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lost Highway 61
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Franconia
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Dotson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The End of the Line in Currie
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Meyer School In St Augusta
District 6 School in New Sweden
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Jordan Brewery Complex
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Cobden
Endion School In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
District 48 School Near Delano
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Old School In Wolverton
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hollywood Town Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Almelund Creamery
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Sandstone
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Visiting Golden Gate
Florence Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Ottawa
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Le Sueur Theater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Wasioja
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Little Marais Inn
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hanover Bridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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