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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Eight Days in May Protests
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Robbinsdale Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Have you ever wondered how Minnesota became known as the land of 10,000 lakes? Every Minnesotan...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Old Brewery In Preston
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Florence Town Hall
Little Falls Depot
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Wasioja
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Red Wing Iron Works
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Ruins of Sawyer School
Moving Old Hibbing
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Remembering Quadna Resort
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hanover Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Milford Monument
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Endion School In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Dotson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Cobden
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Visiting Golden Gate
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Old Wadena
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Old School In Wolverton
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome to Hanska
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Little Marais Inn
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Green Lake Mounds
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The End of the Line in Currie
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
District 48 School Near Delano
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
State Theater In Hutchinson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lost Highway 61
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Endion Depot In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

