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
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance Building In...
The Germania Life Insurance Building was built in 1889 at Fourth Street and Minnesota in downtown...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Townhomes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Greater Minnesota
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...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
After one hundred and twenty years, the mystery of what happened to Clara Ober between the evening...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Endion School In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
State Theater In Hutchinson
District 48 School Near Delano
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Old Wadena
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Almelund Creamery
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Florence Town Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hollywood Town Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Old School In Wolverton
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Moving Old Hibbing
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Milford Monument
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Le Sueur Theater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Church of the Holy Cross
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Cobden
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Finding The Past In Swatara
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Franconia
District 6 School in New Sweden
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Dotson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Munger Terrace In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Remembering Quadna Resort
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Visiting Golden Gate
Lost Highway 61
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Enter Marlon Brando
Old Brewery In Preston
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

