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
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wilder Public Baths
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Greater Minnesota
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Lincoln Branch of the Duluth Public Library opened in 1917 thanks to $30,000 from Andrew...
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
Green Lake Mounds
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 6 School in New Sweden
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Florence Town Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Old Brewery In Preston
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bend in the River Regional Park
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Sandstone
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Cobden
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Old Wadena
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Dotson
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Old School In Wolverton
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Red Wing Iron Works
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Ottawa
Meyer School In St Augusta
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Remembering Quadna Resort
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Little Marais Inn
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Milford Monument
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Endion School In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Visiting Golden Gate
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moving Old Hibbing
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lost Highway 61
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Franconia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...

