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
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Edwin H Hewitt was one of Minnesota’s most widely-known architects of the 20th century. Born in Red...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Townhomes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
After a devastating forest fire obliterated the villages of Finlayson, Hinckley, Miller, Mission...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
The Almelund Creamery
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Moving Old Hibbing
State Theater In Hutchinson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
District 6 School in New Sweden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood Town Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Remembering Quadna Resort
The End of the Line in Currie
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Church of the Holy Cross
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Oxford Mill Ruin
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Endion School In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Little Falls Depot
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome to Hanska
Hanover Bridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Le Sueur Theater
Florence Town Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Dotson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring Ottawa
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Wasioja
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Enter Marlon Brando
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
District 48 School Near Delano
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Finding The Past In Swatara
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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