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
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School opened in Minneapolis in 1932. The school was named after Mary...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Apartments
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
District #28 School in Ramsey
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Greater Minnesota
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The public library in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota was built in 1913 with a $10,000 grant from Andrew...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Enter Marlon Brando
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Milford Monument
Moderne New Ulm Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Visiting Golden Gate
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Ruins of Sawyer School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Red Wing Iron Works
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Finding The Past In Swatara
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood Town Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Meyer School In St Augusta
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bend in the River Regional Park
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Almelund Creamery
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The End of the Line in Currie
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Wasioja
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Franconia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Sandstone
Moving Old Hibbing
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Ottawa
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome to Hanska
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Duluth Homestead Project
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Cobden
Lost Highway 61
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
District 48 School Near Delano
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Green Lake Mounds
The Le Sueur Theater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Florence Town Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Little Falls Depot
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
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...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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