The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
Twin Cities Area
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Construction on the Hamm Building in downtown St Paul began in 1915 and was completed in 1920. The...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
District #28 School in Ramsey
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Townhomes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Saint Paul Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Greater Minnesota
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swatara, Minnesota, started out as a logging town when several logging companies moved into the...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Florence Town Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Franconia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lost Highway 61
The Little Marais Inn
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Old School In Wolverton
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Green Lake Mounds
Old Brewery In Preston
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Dotson
The Milford Monument
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Sandstone
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bend in the River Regional Park
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Ottawa
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hanover Bridge
Endion School In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Church of the Holy Cross
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Cobden
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Endion Depot In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Visiting Golden Gate
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Almelund Creamery
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Wasioja
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Ruins of Sawyer School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Enter Marlon Brando
The Le Sueur Theater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital 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 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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
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...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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