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 Weatherball in Minneapolis
♫ When the Weatherball is glowing red, warmer weather’s just ahead. When the Weatherball is...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Apartments
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Townhomes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Greater Minnesota
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
If you’ve been to the Mille Lacs area of Minnesota, there’s a good chance you’ve...
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
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Ottawa
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Church of the Holy Cross
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Old Brewery In Preston
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Enter Marlon Brando
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Wasioja
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
District 48 School Near Delano
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hollywood Town Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Moderne New Ulm Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
State Theater In Hutchinson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Green Lake Mounds
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Little Marais Inn
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Sandstone
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Meyer School In St Augusta
Red Wing Iron Works
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Little Falls Depot
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Le Sueur Theater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Moving Old Hibbing
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Old Wadena
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome to Hanska
Hanover Bridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Milford Monument
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Old School In Wolverton
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Almelund Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The End of the Line in Currie
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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