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
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis was constructed between 1891 and 1893. It was...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Landmark Center In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Robbinsdale Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hanover Bridge
Little Falls Depot
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Ruins of Sawyer School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Ottawa
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood Town Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Moving Old Hibbing
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Jordan Brewery Complex
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Red Wing Iron Works
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
District 48 School Near Delano
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Milford Monument
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Sandstone
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome to Hanska
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Duluth Homestead Project
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Visiting Golden Gate
Moderne New Ulm Library
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Wasioja
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Little Marais Inn
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Endion Depot In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
District 6 School in New Sweden
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 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?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
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...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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