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 Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Robbinsdale Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gates of Stonebridge
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Ottawa
The Old School In Wolverton
Green Lake Mounds
District 48 School Near Delano
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Milford Monument
Hanover Bridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lost Highway 61
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Wasioja
The Almelund Creamery
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Ruins of Sawyer School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Church of the Holy Cross
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Old Brewery In Preston
The Le Sueur Theater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Little Marais Inn
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Jordan Brewery Complex
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bend in the River Regional Park
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Dotson
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Oxford Mill Ruin
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Moving Old Hibbing
Little Falls Depot
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Cobden
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion School In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Old Wadena
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Moderne New Ulm Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
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Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
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