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
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of Food
Betty Crocker was born in a boardroom of The Washburn-Crosby Company of Minneapolis in 1921. A...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Apartments
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Robbinsdale Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Townhomes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
You can’t drive through Zumbrota, Minnesota, without stopping at the covered bridge. It’s located...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Little Marais Inn
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The End of the Line in Currie
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Dotson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Munger Terrace In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Cobden
Remembering Quadna Resort
Florence Town Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lost Highway 61
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Le Sueur Theater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome to Hanska
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bend in the River Regional Park
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Old Wadena
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Sandstone
The Almelund Creamery
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hanover Bridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
State Theater In Hutchinson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Endion School In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Duluth Homestead Project
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Old Brewery In Preston
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Ottawa
Ruins of Sawyer School
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Franconia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hollywood Town Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Red Wing Iron Works
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Jordan Brewery Complex
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Milford Monument
Little Falls Depot
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Wasioja
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
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...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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