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
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Townhomes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Old Wadena
The townsite now known as Old Wadena was located on the Crow Wing River between the mouths of the...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
By the end of the 19th century, dairy was quickly out-pacing wheat as the top agricultural...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hollywood Town Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome to Hanska
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Little Marais Inn
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Duluth Homestead Project
Visiting Golden Gate
Enter Marlon Brando
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion Depot In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Endion School In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Sandstone
Florence Town Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Oxford Mill Ruin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
District 48 School Near Delano
Hanover Bridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Franconia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Church of the Holy Cross
Jordan Brewery Complex
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
District 6 School in New Sweden
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Green Lake Mounds
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
State Theater In Hutchinson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lost Highway 61
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Wasioja
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Milford Monument
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Dotson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s 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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

