The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis was constructed between 1891 and 1893. It was...
Twin Cities Area
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Robbinsdale Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Women’s City Club In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Hanover Bridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Endion School In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Old Wadena
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Old Brewery In Preston
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bend in the River Regional Park
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Visiting Golden Gate
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Red Wing Iron Works
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
State Theater In Hutchinson
Moderne New Ulm Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Little Falls Depot
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Almelund Creamery
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Duluth Homestead Project
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Ottawa
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Little Marais Inn
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
District 6 School in New Sweden
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
The Old School In Wolverton
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The End of the Line in Currie
Finding The Past In Swatara
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Daniel Piper House in Medford
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lost Highway 61
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hollywood Town Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Dotson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Church of the Holy Cross
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
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...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

