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 End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
In 1899, the Twin City Rapid Transit Company extended its reach of their streetcars to the...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Apartments
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gates of Stonebridge
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Robbinsdale Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Saint Paul Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rumors of copper riches hidden in the North Shore's streams and hillsides had excited the...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Franconia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Green Lake Mounds
The Le Sueur Theater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Dotson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
District 48 School Near Delano
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Little Marais Inn
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Visiting Golden Gate
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Duluth Homestead Project
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Meyer School In St Augusta
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Almelund Creamery
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Old Brewery In Preston
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Enter Marlon Brando
The End of the Line in Currie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Sandstone
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Endion School In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hanover Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moderne New Ulm Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Moving Old Hibbing
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bend in the River Regional Park
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Florence Town Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Old Wadena
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
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...
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
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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