The Germania Life Insurance Building was built in 1889 at Fourth Street and Minnesota in downtown...
Twin Cities Area
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance Building In...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Apartments
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
District #28 School in Ramsey
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Townhomes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Robbinsdale Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Red Wing Iron Works
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Old School In Wolverton
Hollywood Town Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Green Lake Mounds
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Visiting Golden Gate
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Almelund Creamery
State Theater In Hutchinson
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Cobden
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Le Sueur Theater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Meyer School In St Augusta
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Moving Old Hibbing
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Ottawa
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Oxford Mill Ruin
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Endion School In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Little Marais Inn
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Milford Monument
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Franconia
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Dotson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The End of the Line in Currie
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Enter Marlon Brando
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Florence Town Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bend in the River Regional Park
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
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...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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