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...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Robbinsdale Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wilder Public Baths
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Saint Paul Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
Visiting Golden Gate
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Milford Monument
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Enter Marlon Brando
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Moderne New Ulm Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
District 6 School in New Sweden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome to Hanska
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Old School In Wolverton
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Almelund Creamery
Endion Depot In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Old Wadena
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Ottawa
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The End of the Line in Currie
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Dotson
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lost Highway 61
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Le Sueur Theater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Wasioja
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
State Theater In Hutchinson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
District 48 School Near Delano
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Cobden
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Little Marais Inn
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Remembering Quadna Resort
Florence Town Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hanover Bridge
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Sandstone
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
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...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
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