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
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
District #28 School in Ramsey
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Apartments
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wilder Public Baths
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Ok, stick with me here. Can you remember how your elementary school smelled? I can. Vividly. A hint...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome To Old Wadena
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Little Marais Inn
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Little Falls Depot
Jordan Brewery Complex
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Moderne New Ulm Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Green Lake Mounds
District 48 School Near Delano
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Milford Monument
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Ottawa
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Wasioja
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Enter Marlon Brando
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood Town Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Old School In Wolverton
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Endion School In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Florence Town Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
State Theater In Hutchinson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome to Hanska
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Almelund Creamery
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Moving Old Hibbing
Meyer School In St Augusta
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Franconia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Dotson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Sandstone
Visiting Golden Gate
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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