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
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Wilder Public Baths
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Eight Days in May Protests
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Townhomes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Oxford Mill was located on the bank of the Little Cannon River near Cannon Falls. When the mill...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Bally Blacksmith Shop opened in 1911 when Sam Bally left his job at a sawmill to open his own...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
District 48 School Near Delano
Visiting Golden Gate
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Moving Old Hibbing
Red Wing Iron Works
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
District 6 School in New Sweden
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hollywood Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Little Marais Inn
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hanover Bridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Duluth Homestead Project
Jordan Brewery Complex
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Old School In Wolverton
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Franconia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The End of the Line in Currie
Enter Marlon Brando
Little Falls Depot
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Dotson
Florence Town Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Sandstone
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lost Highway 61
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Le Sueur Theater
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Cobden
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Almelund Creamery
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Old Brewery In Preston
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Milford Monument
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Wasioja
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Remembering Quadna Resort
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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